Issues of the formation of postmodernist literature in Japan

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Japan gained economic and military fame on a world scale. However, the country's defeat in World War II destroyed the existing ideals in all areas of the country. Integration into the world, global culture confronted the Japanese people, who have long remained true to their past values, with the new world. Japan's cultural diversity after World War II, its apology for aggression in its military history, and the collision of globalization and traditionalism have created serious problems in the understanding of national identity. As a result of all this, postmodern thought came to the fore in Japanese literature.

In Japan, postmodernism manifested itself more prominently in the 1970s and 1980s. On this eve, numerous examples of postmodern literature with new content were created in Japanese literature, where language games, parody, pastiche and meta-device techniques are expertly used. In the mentioned examples, postmodernist writers were able to artistically reflect the daily monotony of human alienation, drug-related hallucinations, and acts of violence, drug overdoses and suicides in a new way in the age of high technology.