Japanese women writers : twentieth century short fiction / translated and edited by Noriko Mizuta Lippit , Kyoko Iriye Selden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mizuta, Noriko, editor.

Selden, Kyoko Iriye, 1936-2013, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Japanese.

Women.

Manners and customs.

Japanese fiction.

Japanese fiction--Women authors.

Japan.

Japanese fiction--Women authors--Translations into English.

Japanese fiction--21st century--Translations into English.

Women--Japan--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women--Social life and customs.

Genre:

Short stories, Japanese.

Fiction.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 285 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"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

Contents:

The family of Koiwai

The full moon

Blind Chinese soldiers

Narcissus

Residues of squalor

Memory of a night

Love in two lives: the remnant

Ants swarm

To stab

Facing the hills they stand

Congruent figures

The smile of a mountain witch

Yellow sand

In the pot .

Notes:

"An East gate book."

"First published in 1991 by M.E. Sharpe"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780873328593

0873328590

9780873328609

0873328604

OCLC:

1112784102