Escape from the Wasteland Paperback by Susan Napier

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press (1996-04-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 0 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674261815
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse depictions of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence. For new readers of Oe and Mishima, this is an indispensable guide. For critics and scholars, it is the benchmark study.

About the Author

Susan J. Napier is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.