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Volume 6 Issue 6
November-December 2024
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Shamanic Healing and Altered States of Subconscious in Murakami’s Fictions
Author(s) | Kasturi Sinha, Gurudev Meher |
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Country | India |
Abstract | Shamanism, a universal phenomenon, originated in Inner Asia and has evolved over time. Haruki Murakami, a renowned Japanese author, has crossed cultural divides and gained attention with his works of fiction. His belief in protecting the individual for society's benefit is what appeals to and offends people about him. Murakami's works often convey a sense of loneliness and dislocation through characters that are often lonesome and alone. He uses magical realism to explore the subconscious, a metaphysical part of the mind that is unavailable to the conscious self. Murakami's daily writing routine reaches the surface, focusing on human solitude, loneliness, yearning, nostalgia, and the slender borders between existence and reality. Murakami's short fiction The Elephant Vanishes explores the complexity of human pleasure and voting rights, with the narrator's obsession with an elderly elephant and its keeper as a metaphor for the town's negative changes. His works, like Kafka on the Shore and First Person Singular, explore themes of perception, memory, and existence, often connecting readers' subconscious and influencing our lives. His works, often resembling American culture, have gained critical recognition in Japan. Murakami's fiction explores themes of autonomy and individuality, particularly for a generation of Japanese people who lack an identity and are subsumed by commercialism. His characters face existential crises, alienation from society, and the need to find their true identity to rebel against an oppressive system. |
Keywords | Traditional, Mongol, Narrative, Storyteller, Philosophical |
Field | Arts |
Published In | Volume 5, Issue 6, November-December 2023 |
Published On | 2023-12-31 |
Cite This | Shamanic Healing and Altered States of Subconscious in Murakami’s Fictions - Kasturi Sinha, Gurudev Meher - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 6, November-December 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.11285 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.11285 |
Short DOI | https://doi.org/gtbtgq |
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