The Limits of Existential Therapy in the Fiction of Nakamura Fuminori

dc.contributor.advisorFreedman, Alisa
dc.contributor.authorMurnion, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T00:13:17Z
dc.date.available2016-02-24T00:13:17Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-23
dc.description.abstractWritten within an existentialist mode, Nakamura Fuminori’s early fictional works lend themselves to be read as therapeutic technologies reaching out to Japanese youth whose lives are marked by anxiety, isolation, and precariousness. Because English-language scholarship on Nakamura is lacking, this thesis analyzes two of his novels – Child of Dirt and Evil and the Mask – in order to introduce how Nakamura understands the human, how his texts function formally as therapeutic technologies, and how, in the final analysis, they exhibit a nascent sexism that borders on misogyny.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19674
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectChild abuseen_US
dc.subjectContemporary literatureen_US
dc.subjectExistentialismen_US
dc.subjectJapanen_US
dc.subjectLost Generationen_US
dc.subjectTherapyen_US
dc.titleThe Limits of Existential Therapy in the Fiction of Nakamura Fuminori
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of East Asian Languages and Literatures
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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