@article{1358061,
      recid = {1358061},
      author = {Strecher, Matthew, and Thomas, P. L.},
      title = {Haruki Murakami : challenging authors /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has achieved incredible  popularity in his native country and world-wide as well as  rising critical acclaim. Murakami, in addition to receiving  most of the major literary awards in Japan, has been  nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. Yet, his  relationship with the Japanese literary community proper  (known as the Bundan) has not been a particularly friendly  one. One of Murakami's central and enduring themes is a  persistent warning not to suppress our fundamental desires  in favor of the demands of society at large. Murakami's  writing over his career reveals numerous recurring motifs,  but his message has also evolved, creating a catalogue of  works that reveals Murakami to be a challenging author.  Many of those challenges lie in Murakami's blurring of  genre as well as his rich blending of Japanese and Western  mythologies and styles--all while continuing to offer  narratives that attract and captivate a wide range of  readers. Murakami is, as Ōe Kenzaburō once contended, not a  "Japanese writer" so much as a global one, and as such, he  merits a central place in the classroom in order to  confront readers and students, but to be challenged as  well. Reading, teaching, and studying Murakami serves well  the goal of rethinking this world. It will open new lines  of inquiry into what constitutes national literatures, and  how some authors, in the era of blurred national and  cultural boundaries, seek now to transcend those boundaries  and pursue a truly global mode of expression},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1358061},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-462-6},
}