Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Sukehiro Hirakawa -- Preface / Sukehiro Hirakawa -- 1 Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn / Sukehiro Hirakawa -- 2 Hearn and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation / Earl Miner -- 3 Lafcadio Hearn: Between Britain and Japan / George Hughes -- 4 Lafcadio Hearn and the Fin de Siècle / George Hughes -- 5 Entering Island Cultures: Synge, Hearn and the Irish Exotic / George Hughes -- 6 W.B. Yeats and Lafcadio Hearn: Negotiating with Ghosts / George Hughes -- 7 Lafcadio Hearn and Ushaw College / Louis Allen -- 8 Hearn and the Gastronomic Grotesque / Alan Rosen -- 9 Lafcadio Hearn’s Youma : Self as Outsider / Naoko Sugiyama -- 10 Travel Sketches of Lafcadio Hearn / Hiromi Kawashima -- 11 Hearn’s ‘Yuki–Onna’ and Baudelaire’s ‘Les Bienfaits de la Lune’ / Yoko Makino -- 12 Lafcadio Hearn: Japan’s Problematic Interpreter / Yuzo Ota -- 13 The Western Approach to Shinto: Lafcadio Hearn, Bruno Taut and André Malraux / Masaru Toda -- 14 Lafcadio Hearn’s Interpretation of Japan / Paul Murray -- Back Matter -- Notes & References / Editor: Sukehiro Hirakawa -- List of Contributors / Editor: Sukehiro Hirakawa -- Index / Editor: Sukehiro Hirakawa.

A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.

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