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Banana dream
Eleven-year-old Iraqi, Mooz, yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare.
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The hungry little monkey
Little Monkey is very hungry, but none of the other jungle animals seems able to tell him how to peel and eat his banana.
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The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century of empire and war, its post-1945 reconstruction, and the challenges of the twenty-first century to modern nationhood.
Beginning with journalistic accounts of female criminals in the aftermath of the Meiji civil war, Treat moves on to explore how woman novelist Higuchi Ichiy?'s stories engaged with modern liberal economics, sex work, and marriage; credits Natsume S?seki's satire I Am a Cat with the triumph of print over orality in the early twentieth century; and links narcissism in the visual arts with that of the Japanese I-novel on the eve of the country's turn to militarism in the 1930s. From imperialism to Americanization and the new media of television and manga, from boogie-woogie music to Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki, Treat traces the stories Japanese audiences expected literature to tell and those they did not. The book concludes with a classic of Japanese science fiction a description of present-day crises writers face in a Japan hobbled by a changing economy and unprecedented natural and manmade catastrophes. The Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature reinterprets the \"end of literature\"—a phrase heard often in Japan—as a clarion call to understand how literary culture worldwide now teeters on a historic precipice, one at which Japan's writers may have arrived just a moment before the rest of us.
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Pete the cat and the bad banana
Pete the Cat bites into a bad banana and vows never to eat bananas again, even though he generally likes the fruit.
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Realist Magic and the Invented Tokyos of Murakami Haruki and Yoshimoto Banana
Mishima and Kawabata represent a Japanese cultural nationaUsm based on the notion of a unique Japanese aesthetic sensibiUty that both transcends the everyday and opposes - for all of their debts of influence - the contamination of Japanese culture by anything foreign.\\n The moral force is, of course, Tokyo itself, the global city that envelops everything and ensures that it stays on track. In this sense, while mass cultural texts have \"as much content ... as the older social realisms,\" the difference between the latter and mass culture is that \"mass culture represses [social problems, illusions, delusions, ideological clashes] by the narrative construction of imaginary resolutions and by the projection of an optical iUusion of social harmony\" (\"Reification\" 25-26).6 These popular and therefore palatable fictional solutions to the dangers of global Tokyo could therefore be read as a release from the existing (or threatening) social order into a kind of fantastic banaUty - the Utopian longing for ordinary life.
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Benny the bananasaurus rex
\"Benny loves bananas. He eats them morning, noon, and night. He even rides a bike with a yellow banana seat. In fact, Benny has a secret, he hopes one day he will turn into a banana! And if there is one thing Benny knows, it's that with a little imagination anything is possible. A funny and relatable story of a little boy who can be anything he wants to be (whether it's a dinosaur, or a banana, or both!) with a big imagination and a bit of help from his anaana.\"-- Provided by publisher.