The Haruki Phenomenon

A pioneering study applying cosmopolitanism to a socio-cultural analysis of contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and his global popularity known as the Haruki Phenomenon Introduces an original argument on emergent 'everyday cosmopolitanism' as a key agent contributing to the development of a global cultural sphere Presents a new perspective on cosmopolitan Japanese identity that resists Nihonjinron, a prevalent discourse on the theory of Japaneseness

Autorentext

Tomoki Wakatsuki is an independent researcher who received her PhD in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. She has contributed a chapter to Haruki Murakami: Challenging Authors (Sense Publishers, 2016), and her article "Haruki Murakami as a cosmopolitan phenomenon: from 'ordinary' to 'celebrity'" was published in the journal Celebrity Studies (Taylor & Francis, 2018).

Inhalt

1. Introduction A Cosmopolitan Roadmap to the Haruki Phenomenon.- 2. Chapter One Everyday Cosmopolitanism and Haruki-mania.- 3. Chapter Two Is Murakami un-Japanese? : the Myth of Japaneseness.- 4. Chapter Three A Friend of the 'egg': Murakami Speaks in Jerusalem.- 5. Chapter Four An (Extra) Ordinary Cosmopolitan.- 6. Conclusion In Search of Belonging.