Download or read book Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature written by Carl Cassegård and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity, and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of the Second World War.