Ziwei Xuan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6561116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ziwei Xuan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ziwei |
| FAMILY NAME | Xuan |
| SIGNATURE | XUAN Z |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The ambivalent utopia: Layers of nostalgia and memory in Murakami Haruki’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Scholarship has often been skeptical about nostalgia in Murakami’s narratives of self-discovery in postwar and late-capitalist Japan. This article, however, takes a different view, suggesting that nostalgia has a constructive role. This article explores the tension between two layers of nostalgia—the individual and the instrumental—in Murakami’s latest publication, The City and Its Uncertain Walls. In this novel, nostalgia helps the narrator reco…
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The ambivalent utopia: Layers of nostalgia and memory in Murakami Haruki’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Scholarship has often been skeptical about nostalgia in Murakami’s narratives of self-discovery in postwar and late-capitalist Japan. This article, however, takes a different view, suggesting that nostalgia has a constructive role. This article explores the tension between two layers of nostalgia—the individual and the instrumental—in Murakami’s latest publication, The City and Its Uncertain Walls. In this novel, nostalgia helps the narrator reco…
Ambivalence (1 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 works) · Japanese History and Culture (1 works) · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior (1 works)