Places / Jakuchō Setouchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Setouchi, Jakuchō, Author.

Contributor:

Copeland, Rebecca L., Contributor.

Dalby, Liza Crihfield.

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

"Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuchō. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along the way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress, lover, role model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn, she has reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving reflection. Basho (Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby, enjoins readers to accompany the author as she travels again over the familiar terrain of her life story, journeying through the places where she once lived, loved, suffered, and learned." -from the Foreword by Rebecca L. CopelandIn this scintillating work of autobiographical fiction, Setouchi Jakuchō recalls with almost photographic clarity scenes from her past: growing up in the Tokushima countryside in the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman, and in Tokyo as a young student experiencing the heady freedom of college life; escaping to Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged marriage and an ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo, with its lively community of artists and writers, to establish herself as a novelist. Throughout, Jakuchō is propelled by a burning desire to write and make a living as one. Her memories, remarkably sharp and clear, also provide a fascinating picture of everyday life in Japan in the years surrounding World War II.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Translator's Preface

1 Mt. Nanzan

2 Tatara River

3 Nakazu Harbor

4 Mt. Bizan

5 Nagoya Station

6 Aburanokōji Sanjō

7 Mitaka Shimorenjaku

8 Tōnosawa

9 Nishi Ogikubo

10 Nogata

11 Nerima Takamatsu-chō

12 Mejiro Sekiguchidai-machi

13 Nakano Honchō Dōri

14 Hongō Ikizaka

Translator's Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)

ISBN:

9780824890254

OCLC:

1291206148

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.