Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit#
Most significant publications #
Series Editor1990 - 2000 Japanische Bibliothek (Japan Library) Frankfurt: Insel Publ., 34 vols.
1994 - Iaponia Insula: Studien zu Kultur und Gesellschaft Japans, Munich: Iudicium Publ., 36 vols. as of June 2019.
2013 - 2016 WeltLiteraturen – World Literatures (Co-Ed.), Berlin, N.Y. etc.: De Gruyter Publ. 8 vols.
2011 Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature in Foreign Languages) (Co-Ed.) Munich: text & kritik (3 shipments per year, 200 pp. each)
Books and Monographs
2018 (ed.) Jahrbuch für Kulinaristik: The German Journal of Food Studies and Hospitality, Vol. 2, Munich: Iudicium
2018 (ed.) “Joryū hōdan” – Shōwa o ikita josei sakka-tachi (“Women’s Talk” – Women Writers of the Shōwa Period). Tokyo: Iwanami.
2015 Drahtseilakte. Der junge Kenzaburō Ōe. (with Christoph Held) (Balancing acts. The young Kenzaburō Ōe) Munich: Iudicium.
2013 Was vom Japaner übrig blieb. Transkultur – Übersetzung – Selbstbehauptung. Essays. (The Remains of the Japanese – Transculture -Translation–Identity). Munich: Iudicium.
2010 MISHIMA! Mishima Yukio no chiteki rūtsu to kokusaiteki inpakuto. (ed.) (Mishima – Worldwide Impact and Transcultural Roots) Kyōto: Shōwadō
2010 Yukio Mishima – Poetik, Performanz, Politik.(ed. with G. Bierwirth). (Yukio Mishima – Poetics, Performativity, Politics) Munich: Iudicium.
2005 Selbstentblößungsrituale: Zur Theorie und Geschichte der autobiographischen Gattung Shishōsetsu in der modernen japanischen Literatur. Mit einem Vorwort zur Neuausgabe. Munich: Iudicium. (1st. ed. Wiesbaden: Steiner 1981). Jap. ed. Tokyo: Heibonsha 1992. Engl. ed. (partially revised and expanded ed.) Cambridge: Mass.: Harvard UP 1996). (Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon).
2001 Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit: Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch. (ed.) (Aspects of Translation: Japanese-German-Japanese) Munich: Iudicium.
2000 Japanische Gegenwartsliteratur: Ein Handbuch. (Contemporary Japanese Literature: A Handbook) Munich: edition text+kritik.
2000 Canon and Identity – Japanese Modernization Reconsidered: Trans-Cultural Perspectives. (ed.) Iudicium: Munich.
1999 Kulturbeziehungen zwischen Japan und dem Westen seit 1853: Eine annotierte Bibliographie. (ed.) (Cultural Contacts between Japan and the West since 1958 – An Annotated Bibliography). Munich: Iudicium.
1990 Was heißt: Japanische Literatur verstehen? (Understanding Japanese Literature) Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.
1988 Das Ende der Exotik: Zur japanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart. (A Farewell to Exoticism. On Contemporary Japanese Culture and Society) Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.
1976 Mishima Yukios Roman Kyōko-no ie. (Mishima’s novel Kyōko no ie: An intratextual Analysis) Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz
Articles
2006 Hermes and Hermès : Othernesses in Modern Japanese Literature, in: R. Hutchinson, ed.: Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature. London Routledge.
2017: Kako, genzai, mirai e no purojekuto – Wadoku daijiten de shitta Nihon kenkyūno mondaiten (Past, Present and Future in One Project: Highlighting Issues of Scholarship through Dictionary Work), Nihon kenkyū 55, May 2017, pp. 145-169.
2019: Autobiographical Writing in Japan, in: Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction, Vol. 2, Wagner-Egelhaaf, Martina (ed.), Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1059-1084.
A Complete updated List of Publications in German, English, and Japanese can be found under https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanologie/files/pub_kirschnereit.pdf
Covers of selected books#
