![]() ![]() ![]() His works are consistent bestsellers in Japan and have been subsequently translated into over 50 languages. His books have erased any Eurocentric notions I had of literature and pushed me to explore definitions of life and love outside of the box that the narrow-minded texts of high school had placed me in.īorn in 1949, Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer who is renowned for his picaresque characters, magical realism and unique bildungsroman. My first introduction to an Asian American author was with Haruki Murakami, and I embraced my AAPI community through his writing. It was only towards the end of high school when I began exploring the intersection of my AAPI identity with the books and literature I was consuming. I was always hearing about what the white man had to say, what friendship and love was for the white man or what struggle and conflict the white man had to face. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway dominated my English classes. Growing up in a predominantly Caucasian community, I was often fed Eurocentric literature in school and consumed media mainly centered around white narratives. ![]()
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