Thinking outside the Chinese Box: David Mitchell and Murakami Haruki’s subversion of stereotypes about Japan

Thinking outside the Chinese Box: David Mitchell and Murakami Haruki’s subversion of stereotypes about Japan

Japan has often been portrayed by orientalist stereotypes, as famously framed by Edward Said, that were mainly constituted within Europe and North America. There are two distinct streams of orientalist discourse around Japan: traditional Orientalism and techno-Orientalism. Here the West speaks of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chikako Nihei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2009-12-01
Series:New Voices
Subjects:
David Mitchell; Murakami Haruki; Orientalism; stereotypes; subjectivity; cross-cultural differences; cross-cultural representation
Online Access:http://newvoices.org.au/volume-3/thinking-outside-the-chinese-box-david-mitchell-and-murakami-harukis-subversion-of-stereotypes-about-japan/

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