Ina Hein
Biographic Data
| ID | 6837238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ina Hein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ina |
| FAMILY NAME | Hein |
| SIGNATURE | HEIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3087-8135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Writing Against Borders
This article examines how Li Kotomi’s novel Higanbana ga saku shima (2021) intertwines its multilingual narrative form with central themes such as migration, belonging, cultural identity, gender roles, and social hierarchies. Focusing on Li’s radical linguistic experimentation, the analysis situates her work in relation to ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing literature) and queer literature. Set in a speculative future, the novel contrasts a dystopian…
Exophonic Literature in Japanese as New World Literature
The dominant notion that modern Japanese literature is a national literature – written (only) by ethnic Japanese, whose mother tongue is Japanese, in the Japanese language, for a Japanese reading audience – is recently challenged by writers who are non-native speakers of Japanese, having been born and raised outside of Japan, and, after having migrated to Japan, deliberately chose Japanese as their literary language, thus becoming authors of lite…
Constructing difference in Japan
This article's approach is indebted to the method of discourse analysis from a cultural studies' perspective. It attempts to position and analyze literary texts by four authors from Okinawa Medoruma Shun (*1960), Matayoshi Eiki (*1949), Akahoshi Toshizo (*1974) and Tefu Tefu P. (*1976) in the context of the Okinawa boom which has flooded Japanese popular culture and mass media since the 1990s. It will be shown that these writers clearly position …
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Constructing difference in Japan
This article's approach is indebted to the method of discourse analysis from a cultural studies' perspective. It attempts to position and analyze literary texts by four authors from Okinawa Medoruma Shun (*1960), Matayoshi Eiki (*1949), Akahoshi Toshizo (*1974) and Tefu Tefu P. (*1976) in the context of the Okinawa boom which has flooded Japanese popular culture and mass media since the 1990s. It will be shown that these writers clearly position …
Writing Against Borders
This article examines how Li Kotomi’s novel Higanbana ga saku shima (2021) intertwines its multilingual narrative form with central themes such as migration, belonging, cultural identity, gender roles, and social hierarchies. Focusing on Li’s radical linguistic experimentation, the analysis situates her work in relation to ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing literature) and queer literature. Set in a speculative future, the novel contrasts a dystopian…
Exophonic Literature in Japanese as New World Literature
The dominant notion that modern Japanese literature is a national literature – written (only) by ethnic Japanese, whose mother tongue is Japanese, in the Japanese language, for a Japanese reading audience – is recently challenged by writers who are non-native speakers of Japanese, having been born and raised outside of Japan, and, after having migrated to Japan, deliberately chose Japanese as their literary language, thus becoming authors of lite…
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