Interpreting the Erotic as An Agency: A Study of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood by Smaranika Chakraborty, Himangshu Sarma

“…By integrating Lorde’s idea of the erotic as an agency along with the theories of sexuality propounded by Herbert Marcuse, Luce Irigaray, and Georges Bataille, we attempt to arrive at an alternative conceptualization of the erotic through a feminist reading of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood (2003) and perceive the sexual encounters in question, as an empowering and reconciling force for both the sexes, rather than perpetuating power dynamics. …”
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A new analogue of Gauss' functional equation by Hiroshi Haruki, Themistocles M. Rassias

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