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This article investigates postmodern identity construction in the literary world of Haruki Murakami. It examines how Murakami’s fiction problematizes stable notions of the self through fragmented subjectivity, intersexuality, and the interplay of reality and the surreal. Drawing on qualitative textual analysis of Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, and Norwegian Wood, the study identifies narrative strategies that construct identity as fluid, contingent, and relational. The findings indicate that Murakami’s characters negotiate identity through memory gaps, doubling, liminal spaces, and disrupted communication, reflecting broader postmodern conditions. The article argues that Murakami’s poetics offers a nuanced model of identity as an ongoing process rather than a fixed essence.
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