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Now Published: Volume 10 – Issue 1 – IAFOR Journal of Education – Language Learning in Education

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KeywordsĬommemoration, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami, speculative fiction, trauma I will demonstrate how, through SF, Murakami is able to give form to an unseen crisis of memory in postwar Japan, a crisis marked by the unspeakable shock of war and by the trauma that results from the intrusion of artificial memories upon one’s consciousness of history. This paper argues that Haruki Murakami uses the mode of SF in his novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, to explore how mnemonic substitutes interfere with the complex process of remembering World War II in Japan. SF is both rooted in the “real” and “estranged” from reality, and thus able to give form to impossible injuries. I am interested in how the unseen wounding of mnemonic intervention is registered in the “impossible” language of speculative fiction (SF).

These transformations involve the incorporeal but deeply felt, violent dislocations of human experience, traumas that are grounded in reality but which challenge symbolic resources because they are difficult to articulate. The extensive use of mnemonic devices, for instance, has redefined the subject by externalizing aspects of inner consciousness. Modern information technologies have radically transfigured human experience.

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 10(2). Violent Memory: Haruki Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Author: Netty Mattar, International Islamic University Malaysia, MalaysiaĬitation: Mattar, N.