Th 15 yrs. old
What is the name of the young man who is on the run?
Who is Kafka Tamura?
This is the ominous place where the children collapsed.
What is Owan yama or Rice Bowl Hill?
Time is both history and timeless; space is challenged.
What is magical realism?
This character serves as Kafka's conscience.
Who is the Boy named Crow?
This family sponsors the Komura Memorial Library?
Who is the Komura family?
This literary movement can be associated with the power shifts and dehumanization of the post WWII era and the barrage of consumer capitalism.
What is postmodernism?
"Just then a thought hits me. Maybe - just maybe - this girl's my sister." --Kafka
Who is Sakura?
This concept serves a guide.
Who was Colonel Sanders?
No text exists in isolation; authors use a variety of techniques to establish a connection between texts whether it is through parody, pastiche, or direct reference.
What is intertextuality?
Oshima and Kafka discuss the work on a German author who wrote Metamorphosis.
Who was Franz Kafka.
This character was known for killing cats.
Who was Jonnie Walker?
This literary characteristic means beyond fiction; authors often break away from the narrative to address the nature of what they are attempting to do in the novel. It blurs the line between fiction and reality.
What is metafiction?
"I burned up all the memories," she says deliberately choosing her words. "They went up in smoke and disappeared into the thin air."
Who is Miss Saeki?
"Not that I'm the best ___ you could find, but better than nothing, huh? "
Who was Hoshino?
In this literary movement authors were able to describe an alternate world that deviated from their real one, which many authors used as a means of subversion against the political regime that they experienced.
What is magical realism?