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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 Woman  Part 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