Breaking into Japanese Literature/Identity: Tatemae and Honne Ishii, Tetsuo Saravia Vargas, José Roberto Saravia Vargas, Juan Carlos Camerakarrie Japanese Literature Interpretation Tatemae Society Banana Yoshimoto Fotografía: "Japan", Camerakarrie. Due to the application of Euro-centered methods of interpretation, literary criticism has overlooked key social aspects that are characteristic of Japanese literature. Among these much-neglected characteristics one can include the paired concepts tatemae and honne. By incorporating those concepts into a reading of Japanese texts, the reader can discover social issues previously unseen. Banana Yosimoto’s novel Kitchen is used to illustrate the different interactions of tatemae and honne. 2013-06-10T06:43:36Z 2013-06-10T06:43:36Z 2011-12-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ishii, T., Saravia Vargas, J. R., Saravia Vargas, J. C. Breaking into Japanese Literature/Identity: Tatemae and Honne. Impossibilia, 2: 81-95 (2011). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/26214] 2174-2464 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/26214 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Asociación Cultural Impossibilia