Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
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Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

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Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

About this book

A 24-chapter review of major themes connecting Japanese women's writing from the late 19th century to the early 21st century.

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Information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9789048558360
Edition
0
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Critique littéraire asiatique

Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Contributors
  3. Preface: The Color Red
  4. Introduction: When Women Write
  5. Part 1 Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing
  6. Chapter 1 When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Nagai Michiko
  7. Chapter 2 Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Ōkura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction
  8. Chapter 3 Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ōhara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri
  9. Part 2 Owning the Classics
  10. Chapter 4 Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyō, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko
  11. Chapter 5 Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: “Urashima Tarō” in the Literary Production of Ōba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko
  12. Chapter 6 Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic—Tsushima Yūko, Tawada Yōko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki
  13. Part 3 Sexual Trauma, Survival and the Search for the Good Life
  14. Chapter 7 Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko
  15. Chapter 8 Voicing Herstory’s Silence: Three Women Playwrights—Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi
  16. Chapter 9 Writing Women’s Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana
  17. Chapter 10 Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi
  18. Part 4 Food, Family, and the Feminist Appetite
  19. Chapter 11 Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko
  20. Chapter 12 Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, Kanai Mieko, and Ogawa Yōko
  21. Part 5 Beyond the Patriarchal Family
  22. Chapter 13 “The Mommy Trap”: Childless Women Write Motherhood—Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka
  23. Chapter 14 Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka
  24. Part 6 Age is Just a Number
  25. Chapter 15 Beyond Shōjo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood—Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko
  26. Chapter 16 Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko
  27. Chapter 17 Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna, Itō Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko
  28. Part 7 Colonies, War, Aftermath
  29. Chapter 18 Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko
  30. Chapter 19 Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyōko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko
  31. Chapter 20 Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa—Tōma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami
  32. Part 8 Environment and Disaster
  33. Chapter 21 Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyōko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi
  34. Chapter 22 Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori
  35. Part 9 Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally
  36. Chapter 23 Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Yū Miri, and Che Sil
  37. Chapter 24 Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yangji
  38. Index