Japanese avant-garde
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| - | Avant-garde writers, such as [[Kōbō Abe]], who wrote fantastic novels such as ''[[Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. [[Yoshikichi Furui]] tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists. The 1988 [[Naoki Prize]] went to [[Shizuko Todo]] for ''[[Ripening Summer]]'', a story capturing the complex psychology of modern women. Other award-winning stories at the end of the decade dealt with current issues of the elderly in hospitals, the recent past (Pure- Hearted Shopping District in [[Kōenji]], Tokyo), and the life of a [[Meiji period]] [[ukiyo-e]] artist. In international literature, [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], a native of Japan, had taken up residence in Britain and won Britain's prestigious [[Booker Prize]]. | + | Avant-garde writers, such as [[Kōbō Abe]], who wrote fantastic novels such as ''[[Woman in the Dunes]]'' (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. [[Yoshikichi Furui]] tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists. |
| - | [[Haruki Murakami]] is one of the most popular and controversial of today's Japanese authors. His genre-defying, humorous and surreal works have sparked fierce debates in Japan over whether they are true "literature" or simple pop-fiction: Kenzaburō Ōe has been one of his harshest critics. Some of his best-known works include ''[[Norwegian Wood (novel)|Norwegian Wood]]'' (1987) and ''[[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]'' (1994–1995). Another best-selling contemporary author is [[Banana Yoshimoto]]. | + | ==See also== |
| + | *[[Japanese cyberpunk]], [[Japanese culture]], [[Japanese exploitation]]'' | ||
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| - | Although modern Japanese writers covered a wide variety of subjects, one particularly Japanese approach stressed their subjects' inner lives, widening the earlier novel's preoccupation with the narrator's consciousness. In Japanese fiction, plot development and action have often been of secondary interest to emotional issues. In keeping with the general trend toward reaffirming national characteristics, many old themes re-emerged, and some authors turned consciously to the past. Strikingly, [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] attitudes about the importance of knowing oneself and the poignant impermanence of things formed an undercurrent to sharp social criticism of this material age. There was a growing emphasis on women's roles, the Japanese persona in the modern world, and the malaise of common people lost in the complexities of urban culture. | ||
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| - | Popular fiction, non-fiction, and children's literature all flourished in urban Japan in the 1980s. Many popular works fell between "pure literature" and pulp novels, including all sorts of historical serials, information-packed docudramas, science fiction, mysteries, [[Japanese detective fiction|detective fiction]], business stories, war journals, and animal stories. Non-fiction covered everything from crime to politics. Although factual journalism predominated, many of these works were interpretive, reflecting a high degree of individualism. Children's works re-emerged in the 1950s, and the newer entrants into this field, many of them younger women, brought new vitality to it in the 1980s. | ||
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| - | [[Manga]] (comic books) have penetrated almost every sector of the popular market. They include virtually every field of human interest, such as a multi volume high-school history of Japan and, for the adult market, a manga introduction to economics, and pornography. Manga represented between 20 and 30 percent of annual publications at the end of the 1980s, in sales of some [[Yen|¥]]400 billion per year. | ||
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Visual art in the postwar period
In the 1950s and 1960s, Japan's artistic avant garde included the internationally influential Gutai group, which originated or anticipated various postwar genres such as performance art, installation art, conceptual art, and wearable art.
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Post-war literature
Avant-garde writers, such as Kōbō Abe, who wrote fantastic novels such as Woman in the Dunes (1960), wanted to express the Japanese experience in modern terms without using either international styles or traditional conventions, developed new inner visions. Yoshikichi Furui tellingly related the lives of alienated urban dwellers coping with the minutiae of daily life, while the psychodramas within such daily life crises have been explored by a rising number of important women novelists.
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