Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage - Paperback

by Gitte Marianne Hansen (Editor), Michael Tsang (Editor)

This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer.

Author Biography

Gitte Marianne Hansen is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. An AHRC Leadership Fellow, she is PI for the project 'Gendering Murakami Haruki: Characters, Transmedial Productions and Contemporary Japan' and the author of Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating Contradiction in Narrative and Visual Culture (2016).

Michael Tsang is due to take up lectureship in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in world/postcolonial literatures and media with an East Asian focus. He has published in Japan Forum, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Wasafiri, and others, and is the founding editor of Hong Kong Studies.