The Haruki Phenomenon : Haruki Murakami as Cosmopolitan Writer

1. Introduction A Cosmopolitan Roadmap to the Haruki Phenomenon1.1 Is Murakami World Literature?1.2 Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the "other world"1.3 Introducing the Chapters
2. Chapter One Everyday Cosmopolitanism and Haruki-mania2.1 The Haruki Phenomenon2.2 Identity and Belonging, as a Cosmopolitan2.3 After the Speeches in Jerusalem and Barcelona2.4 Murakamis Cosmopolitan Commitment in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage2.5 Le Mal du Pays - Past Memories and Beyond2.6 In Search of the "right place" of Belonging
3. Chapter Two Is Murakami "un-Japanese"?: the Myth of "Japaneseness"3.1 The Myth of "Japaneseness" and the Nihonjinron Discourse3.2 The watakushi shōsetu and the Japanese Self3.3 The Language of the New Meiji Subject3.4 Novel Subjects for a New Nation-State3.5 Lost Identity: Westernization and Japanization
4. Chapter Three A Friend of the egg: Murakami Speaks in Jerusalem4.1 As a Novelist and an Individual4.2 From Cosmopolitan Exile to Cosmopolitan Commitment4.3 What is the System?4.4 Representations of the System in Murakamis Works4.5 "The System is being created by us"4.6 Breaking Through the Wall
5. Chapter Four An (Extra) Ordinary Cosmopolitan5.1 The Haruki Phenomenon and the Question of Japaneseness5.2 A New Cosmopolite Japaneseness?5.3 The Two Currents of the Haruki Wave5.4 An Array of Gatekeepers5.5 To Be Engaged in a Silent Conversation
6. Conclusion In Search of Belonging6.1 Investigating the "everyday" and "otherness" in Murakami and Shaun Tan6.2 The "other world" or "another world" In Between?