Culture and authenticity: the discursive space of Japanese detective fiction and the formation of the national imaginary

In my thesis, I examine the discursive space of the detective fiction genre following Kasai Kiyoshi's periodization in his two-volume seminal work Tantei shosetsuron (The Theory of Detective Fiction, 1998). I investigate how Japanese detective fiction has developed in relation to Japan's m...

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Main Author: Saito, Satomi
Other Authors: Creekmur, Corey K.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2007
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/145
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1330&context=etd