Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Copeland, Rebecca

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written contributions from scholars in the field-representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia-the Handbook introduces and analyzes works by modern and contemporary women writers that coalesce loosely around common themes, tropes, and genres. Putting writers from different generations in conversation with one another reveals the diverse ways they have responded to similar subjects. Whereas women writers may have shared concerns-the pressure to conform to gendered expectation, the tension between family responsibility and individual interests, the quest for self-affirmation-each writer invents her own approach. As readers will see, we have writers who turn to memoir and autobiography, while others prefer to imagine fabulous fictional worlds. Some engage with the literary classics-whether Japanese, Chinese, or European-and invest their works with rich intertextual allusions. Other writers grapple with colonialism, militarism, nationalism, and industrialization. This Handbook builds a foundation which invites readers to launch their own investigations into women's writing in Japan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040775240
• Artikelnr.: 75564699

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Copeland, professor of modern Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan (Hawai'i UP, 2000), editor of Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing (Hawai'i UP, 2006), and co-editor with Melek Ortabasi of The Modern Murasaki: Selected Works by Women Writers of Meiji Japan 1885-1912 (Columbia UP, 2006), among other works. She has also translated the works of Uno Chiyo, Hirabayashi Taiko, and Kirino Natsuo and has recently completed the novel The Kimono Tattoo (Brother Mockingbird, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing
1. When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko
Ariyoshi Sawako
and Nagai Michiko (Susan W. Furukawa)
2. Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Okura Teruko
Miyano Murako
Togawa Masako
Miyabe Miyuki
and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction (Quillon Arkenstone)
3. Feminist Failed Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ohara Mariko
Murata Sayaka
and Ueda Sayuri (Kazue Harada)
Part 2: Owning the Classics 4. Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyo
Kurahashi Yumiko
and Kawakami Mieko (Emily Levine)
5. Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: Urashima Taro in the Literary Production of Oba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko (Luciana Cardi)
6. Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic-Tsushima Yuko
Ito Hiromi
Tawada Yoko
Matsuura Rieko
and Sakuraba Kazuki (Lucy Fraser)
Part 3: Sexual Trauma
Survival
and the Search for the Good Life
7. Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko (Michiko Suzuki)
8. Voicing Herstory's Silence: Three Women Playwrights-Hasegawa Shigure
Ariyoshi Sawako
and Dakemoto Ayumi (Barbara Hartley)
9. Writing Women's Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko
Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana (Nozomi Uematsu)
10. Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi (David S. Holloway)
Part 4: Food
Family
and the Feminist Appetite
11. Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko (Julia C. Bullock)
12. Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori
Kanai Mieko
Ogawa Yoko (Hitomi Yoshio)
Part 5: Beyond the Patriarchal Family
13. The Mommy Trap
: Childless Women Write Motherhood-Kono Taeko
Takahashi Takako
and Murata Sayaka (Amanda C. Seaman)
14. Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko
Fujino Chiya
and Murata Sayaka (Anna Specchio); Part 6: Age is Just a Number
15. Beyond Shojo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood-Yoshiya Nobuko
Tanabe Seiko
and Hayashi Mariko (Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase)
16. Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko (Sohyun Chun)
17. Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna
Ito Hiromi
and Kanai Mieko (Tomoko Aoyama)
Part 7: Colonies
War
Aftermath
18. Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko (Noriko J. Horiguchi) .
19. Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyoko
Sawachi Hisae
and Miyao Tomiko (Lianying Shan)
20. Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa-Toma Hiroko
Yoshida Sueko
and Sakiyama Tami (Davinder L. Bhowmik)
Part 8: Environment and Disaster
21. Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyoko
Ishimure Michiko
and Kawakami Hiromi (Rachel DiNitto)
22. Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko
Hayashi Fumiko
and Osaki Midori (Jon L. Pitt)
Part 9: Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally
23. Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja
Yu Miri
and Che Sil (Christina Yi)
24. Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana
Takahashi Takako
and Yi Yangji (Pedro Thiago Ramos Basso).