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