Criticisms of Her: What Says He? Murakami's Gender Philosophy

Hansen, GM

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-89646-0_8

Criticisms of Her: What Says He? Murakami's Gender Philosophy

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Abstract

Murakami Haruki has often been criticised for his constructions of gender, especially his images of women who are deemed objects for male subjectivities. But what does the author himself have to say about gender? And how can we define Murakami’s gender philosophy? This chapter takes a brief look at Murakami’s expressions of gender—especially what he has said in interviews but also at some of the alternative expressions of women that we meet throughout his works.