Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited book looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work.

Introduction 1. Hermes and Hermés: Othernesses in Modern Japanese Literature 2. Meet Me on the Other Side: Strategies of Otherness in Modern Japanese Literature Part 1: External Others 3. Who Holds the Whip? Power and Critique in Nagai Kafu's Tales of America 4. Foreign Bodies: 'Race', Gender and Orientalism in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's The Mermaid's Lament 5. Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro 6. Yokomitsu Riichi's Others: Paris and Shanghai Part 2: Internal Others 7. Passing: Paradoxes of Alterity in The Broken Commandment 8. The Burakumin as Other in Noma Hiroshi's Circle of Youth 9. Sincerely Yours: Uno Chiyo's A Wife's Letters as Wartime Subversion 10. Foreign Sex, Native Politics: Lady Chatterley's Lover in Post-Occupation Japan 11. The Way of the Survivor: Conversion and Inversion in Oe Kenzaburo's Hiroshima Notes 12. Free to Write: Confronting the Present and the Past in Shiina Rinzo's The Beautiful WomanPart 3: Liminal Sites 13. Yuta as the Postcolonial Other in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's Fiction 14. Modernity, History, and the Uncanny: The Colonial Encounter and the Epistemological Gap 15. There's No Such Place As Home: Goto Meisei, or Identity as Alterity 16. Beyond Language: Embracing the Figure of 'the Other' in Yi Yang-Ji's Yuhi