Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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The Shaman Detective: A Comparative Reading of Enchantment and Animism in Contemporary Japanese Detective Fiction

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Dennis, Samuel Francis, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis examines a specific figure that appears throughout contemporary Japanese detective fiction (across different media), which I have termed the Shaman detective. A liminal figure that combines Japanese folk cosmologies with contemporary detective work, the Shaman detective is at once similar to, yet separate from, western postmodernist detective fiction. Invested in narratives… more
Full Text: THE SHAMAN DETECTIVE: A COMPARATIVE READING OF ENCHANTMENT AND ANIMISM IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE DETECTIVE FICTION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …