Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction write by Noriko Mizuta Lippit. This book was released on 2015-03-04. Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century
Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century write by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck. This book was released on 1994. Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)
Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) write by Noriko Mizuta Lippit. This book was released on 2017-09-29. Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context, and their mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female school literature' totally inadequate to characterize their works. Indeed, they stand at the core of modern Japanese literature as a whole.
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories write by Theodore William Goossen. This book was released on 2002. The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Age of Shojo
Age of Shojo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age of Shojo write by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase. This book was released on 2019-04-16. Age of Shojo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls’ magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters’ “immature” qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls’ fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls’ fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko’s dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo’s social realism, Morita Tama’s autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls’ perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is Associate Professor of Japanese at Vassar College.
