The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature by Leith Morton

The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature

Leith Morton

257 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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Readers worldwide have long been drawn to the foreign, the exotic, and the alien, even before Freud's famous essay on the uncanny in 1919. Given Japan's many years of relative isolation, followed by its multicultural empire, these themes seem part...

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