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Murakami Haruki’s Sho-Jo Kasahara Mei
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posted on 2023-05-22, 18:03 authored by Flutsch, MIn Murakami Haruki's Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle), the brilliantly insightful sixteen-year-old shojo, Kasahara Mei, is the most important and complex companion to the protagonist, Okada Torn, in his orphean search for his wife. As pointed out by Murakami himself (Murakami 1995b: 274), Mei plays multiple roles in Tom's journey, and I will argue here that she challenges the novel's conventional genderization of the psychic journey, whereby the unconscious, irrational, bodily, corrupt, cyclical "other" is female to the rational, cerebral, clean, linear time-oriented consciousness of the male.
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Publication title
Girl Reading Girl in JapanEditors
T Aoyama and B HartleyPagination
119-129ISBN
978-020386906-2Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomExtent
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