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For decades now, the “detachment to commitment” framework has served as a model for how critics understand Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s career. The former term alludes to the often aloof, disinterested, and apathetic protagonists of Murakami’s earlier fiction while the latter term refers to later works more sensitively attuned to issues facing Japanese history, culture, and society. This article reexamines Murakami’s  Kafka on the Shore  as a novel that unsettles this framework and compels its revision. More specifically,  Kafka on the Shore  reframes “detachment” as a sign of traumas that remain in the aftermath of the version of history it offers to readers, that is, one melded out of warfare, violence, and conflict. Consequently, the novel invites readers to rethink Murakami’s fiction and career while bolstering its own status as one of the most defining works of Murakami’s oeuvre.

Rethinking Haruki Murakami: An Alternative History of Traumas and Aftermaths in Kafka on the Shore