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Social Issues in the Literary Works of Murata Sayaka (b. 1979)

Student: Lepeshko Aleksei

Supervisor: Olga V. Klimova

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Asian and African Studies (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2024

This graduation thesis examines the specificity of the portrayal of social issues in the literary works of contemporary Japanese writer Murata Sayaka (b. 1979) on the basis of her novels "Convenience Store Woman" and "Earthlings". Through the simultaneous use of several qualitative research methods, such as close reading, narrative analysis, and thematic analysis, this paper identifies stylistic choices and narrative devices Murata Sayaka is using to depict and criticize the pressures of strict social norms that condition many of the problems of contemporary Japanese society.

Full text (added May 20, 2024)

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