Author : Norika Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 1991-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780765639974
Revised and expanded edition of Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden's Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers [1982]
Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317466934
This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review
Author : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788772892689
It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.
Author : Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Publisher : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2024-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Author : Theodore William Goossen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803727
Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Taisho era, to the new breed of writers produced under the constraints of literary censorship, and the current writings reflecting the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the entire development of the Japanese short story.
Author : Kyoko Siden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1317464362
This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles. No other collection offers usch a diversity of women's voices
Author : Alex Bates
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 160329595X
As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation's changing relationship to other Asian countries and to the West. This volume will help instructors introduce students to novels, short stories, and manga that confront postwar Japanese experiences, including the suffering caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the echoes of Japan's colonialism and imperialism, new ways of thinking about Japanese identity and about minorities such as the zainichi Koreans, changes in family structures, and environmental disasters. Essays provide context for understanding the particularity of postwar Japanese literature, its place in world literature, and its connections to the Japanese past.
Author : Helen Hardacre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004109810
This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
Author : Jane Eldridge Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1136214305
Unique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.
Author : Jay Rubin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014139563X
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Yuten Sawanishi's 'Filling Up with Sugar', from Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'Shoulder-Top Secretary' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey', The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy. Curated by Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated several of the stories, and introduced by Haruki Murakami, this book will be a revelation to its readers.
