Rezension zum Sammelband Sprachlich-literarische »Aggregatzustände« im Japanischen: Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998-2018

Abstract

In my review, I discuss the trilingual reader Sprachlich-literarische »Aggregatzustände« im Japanischen: Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998-2018, which was published in the year 2020 by be.bra wissenschaft verlag, Berlin. While aiming to pinpoint the main lines of argumentation amongst an array of diverse contributions – many of them revolving around questions of transmediality in leisure and literature throughout various points in Japanese history – I paid special attention to this book regarding its self-proclaimed objective to be equally accessible to scholars and a potentially non-academic, albeit Japanophile, readership. In my estimation, this goal was largely reached, which I attest to the editor’s attention to detail such as an accessible writing style and the incorporation of comprehensive introductory sections in most of the presented papers. With my assessment, I hope to contribute to the further development of strategies which may help to make research results in the field of Japanese studies more widely received.