Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki is a 2002 non-fiction book by Matthew Strecher, published by University of Michigan Press.
[1] Ann Sherif of Oberlin College stated that the work examines the interaction among history and literature with "great seriousness".
[1] The first two chapters have counterarguments against literature reviewers who perceived Murakami's works as too, in the words of Erik R. Lofgren of Bucknell University, "formulaic".
[1] The fourth chapter is a historiographical examination of Murakami's works and the political environment they were made in.
[2] Ted Goosen of York University wrote that the book's examination of Murakami in postmodernism "is especially convincing".