Contents
Introduction: Playing in the Shadows, Fictions of Race, and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature
Chapter 1. Unspeakable Things Unspoken: Moments of Silence, Racial Preoccupation, and the Hauntology of Blackness in the Literature of Occupied Japan
Chapter 2. In the Beginning: Ōe Kenzaburō and the Creative Nonfiction of Blackness
Chapter 3. Of Passing Significance: Pronominal Politics, Nakagami Kenji, and the Fiction of Burakuness
Chapter 4. Genre Trouble: Breaking the Law of Genre and Literary Blackness in the Long 1970s
Chapter 5. Japanese Literature in the Age of Hip Hop: A Mic Check
Conclusion: Parallax Vision and Playing in the Shadows—Elsewhere and Otherwise
Notes
Bibliography
Index