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Between Wastelands and Wires: Urban Ecology, Postmodern Loss, and the Nonhuman Turn in Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Author(s) Minakshi Prasad Mishra
Country India
Abstract This paper undertakes an ecocritical reading of Haruki Murakami's 2013 novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, situating it at the intersection of postmodern narrative technique and environmental humanities. Drawing on foundational frameworks established by Cheryl Glotfelty and Lawrence Buell alongside more recent interventions in urban ecocriticism (Hird; Iovino and Oppermann), the nonhuman turn (Wolfe; Bennett), and world-literary ecology (Heise; Ortiz-Robles), the paper argues that Murakami encodes ecological crisis as an affective, somatic, and spatial condition in his protagonist's body, relationships, and urban environment. The contested status of Murakami's fiction within world literature — its cosmopolitan appeal alongside charges of cultural superficiality — is examined through the lens of ecocritical world literature studies. Colour symbolism, the motif of sterility, digital mediation, and the uncanny hollowness of Tokyo's built environment are read as registers of a planetary environmental anxiety that the novel's postmodern form simultaneously symptomatises and critiques. The paper contributes to the growing field of Japanese ecocriticism and to broader conversations about aesthetics, affect, and ecological responsibility in contemporary global fiction.
Keywords Murakami; ecocriticism; postmodernism; urban ecology; nonhuman turn; world literature; Japanese fiction
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Published In Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024
Published On 2024-06-22
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.81933
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