Handbook of modern and contemporary Japanese women writers / edited by Rebecca Copeland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Rebecca L., 1956- editor.

Series:

Japan Documents handbooks.

Japan Documents handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

<i>The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers<i> offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Featuring twenty-four newly written contributions from scholars in the field - representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia - the <i>Handbook</i> 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 <i>Handbook</i> builds a foundation which invites readers to launch their own investigations into women's writing in Japan.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface: The Color Red

Rebecca Copeland

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

Susan W. Furukawa

Chapter 2: Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Ōkura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction

Quillon Arkenstone

Chapter 3: Feminist "Failed" Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ōhara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri

Kazue Harada

Part 2: Owning the Classics

Chapter 4: Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyō, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko

Emily Levine

Chapter 5: Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: "Urashima Tarō" in the Literary Production of Ōba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko

Luciana Cardi

Chapter 6: Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic-Tsushima Yūko, Tawada Yōko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki

Lucy Fraser

Part 3: Sexual Trauma, Survival and the Search for the Good Life

Chapter 7: Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko

Michiko Suzuki

Chapter 8: Voicing Herstory's Silence: Three Women Playwrights-Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi

Barbara Hartley

Chapter 9: Writing Women's Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana

Nozomi Uematsu

Chapter 10: Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi

David S. Holloway

Part 4: Food, Family, and

Chapter 11: Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko

Julia C. Bullock

Chapter 12: Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, Kanai Mieko, and Ogawa Yōko.

Hitomi Yoshio

Part 5: Beyond the Patriarchal Family

Chapter 13: "The Mommy Trap": Childless Women Write Motherhood-Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka

Amanda C. Seaman

Chapter 14: Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka

Anna Specchio

Part 6: Age is Just a Number

Chapter 15: Beyond Shōjo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood-Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

Chapter 16: Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko

Sohyun Chun

Chapter 17: Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna, Itō Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko

Tomoko Aoyama

Part 7: Colonies, War, Aftermath

Chapter 18: Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko

Noriko J. Horiguchi

Chapter 19: Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyōko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko

Lianying Shan

Chapter 20: Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa-Tōma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami

Davinder L. Bhowmik

Part 8: Environment and Disaster

Chapter 21: Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyōko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi

Rachel DiNitto

Chapter 22: Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori

Jon L. Pitt

Part 9: Crossing Boarders: Writing Transnationally

Chapter 23: Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Yū Miri, and Che Sil

Christina Yi

Chapter 24: Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yangji

Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-003-69717-8

1-04-078480-1

90-485-5836-0

9781003697176

OCLC:

1369062691