Fuzzy Traumas: Animals and Errors in Contemporary Japanese Literature

by Tyran Grillo

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog stories, and a notorious essay on euthanasia, treating each work as a case study of human-animal relationships gone somehow awry. He makes an unprecedented case for Japan's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501775987
• ISBN13: 9781501775987
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"