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• Title:Murder most modern : detective fiction and Japanese culture / Sari Kawana.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kawana, Sari.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Project Muse Archive Complete Supplement III Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
  

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  • Call Number: PL747.67.D45
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Detective and mystery stories, Japanese--History and criticism.
  Japanese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
  Culture in literature.
  
• Description:1 online resource ; cm.
  
• Summary:The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of Japans detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining the countrys emergence as a modern nation-state. Kawana explores the interactions between the popular genre and broader discourses of modernity, nation, and ethics that circulated at this pivotal moment in Japanese history. The author contrasts Japanese works.
  
• Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  Print version record.
  
• ISBN:9780816656592 (electronic bk.)
  0816656592 (electronic bk.)
  081665025X (hc : alk. paper)
  9780816650255 (hc : alk. paper)
  0816650268 (pb : alk. paper)
  9780816650262 (pb : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Detective Fiction, Diphtheria, and Modernity; 1. Tailing the Tail: How to Turn Paranoia into a Hobby; 2. Eyeing the Privates: Sexuality as Motive; 3. Mad Scientists and Their Prey: Bioethics and Murder; 4. Drafted Detectives and Total War: Three Editors of Shupio; 5. The Disfigured National Body: Unmasking Modernity in Postwar Mysteries; Epilogue: Beyond the Whodunit; Notes; Bibliography; Index.