The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature 9780824864576

Readers worldwide have long been drawn to the foreign, the exotic, and the alien, even before Freud’s famous essay on th

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. TRANSLATING THE ALIEN
CHAPTER 2. NATURALIZING THE ALIEN
CHAPTER 3. THE DEMON WITHIN
CHAPTER 4. THE GOTHIC NOVEL
CHAPTER 5. GOTHIC STYLISTICS
CHAPTER 6. FEMALE SHAMANS
CHAPTER 7. HISTORY / FICTION / IDENTITY
CHAPTER 8. THE ALIEN WITHOUT
EPILOGUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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