Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers - 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 Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers write by Nina Cornyetz. This book was released on 2023-09-22. Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language. The contributions explore a wide range of theoretical approaches and psychoanalytic interpretations to "reading" a new generation of Japanese women writers’ relationships to identity, sex/gender, and desire. Through dealing with female spaces, maternal roles, gendered bodies, or resistant speech acts, the book uncovers the overarching theme of desire – desire for language, touch, and recognition. Focusing on authors who have previously been underrepresented in English-language scholarship, the book highlights the diverse nature and the important synergies of writing by women in the last few decades. Addressing experimental and nonconforming authors whose works challenge gender and culture expectation as well as Orientalist myths, this will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian literature, Japanese culture, and Asian studies.
Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature - 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 Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature write by Reiko Abe Auestad. This book was released on 2024-07-29. Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analysing a selection of Japanese novels and a film. They are by four well-known male authors and a director (Natsume Sôseki, Shiga Naoya, Ôe Kenzaburô, Ibuse Masuji and Imamura Shôhei) and five female authors (Kirino Natsuo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Tsushima Yûko, and Ishimure Michiko) from the early twentieth century up to the early millennium. It approaches the different artistic strategies that oscillate between emotional immersion and critical reflection. Inspired by new developments in cognitive theory and neuroscience, the book seeks to put a spotlight on the aspects of modern Japanese novels that were not fully appreciated earlier; the eclectic and fluid nature of the novel as a form, and the vital roles played by affects and emotions often complicated under the impact of trauma. Rejuvenating previously established cultural theories through a cognitive and emotional lens (narratology, genre theory, historicism, cultural study, gender theory, and ecocriticism), this book will appeal to students and scholars of modern literature and Japanese literature.
The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture
The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture - 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 Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture write by Mina Qiao. This book was released on 2023-09-01. The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and pandemic-induced social and political turbulence in a post-industrial society that has withstood multiple major destructions and disasters. From published fiction by major authors to anonymous accounts on social media, from network TV shows to contents by Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), in both "high" and "low" culturescapes, timely representations of coronavirus and individual and social livings under its impact emerge. These narratives, either personal or top-down, all endeavor to fathom this unexpected disruption of modern linear progress. Exploring the paradoxes underlying the "new normal" of Japanese society of the present day, the book collectively demonstrates how the narratives of coronavirus are not "neo-" but "re-": returning to the past, revealing existing problems and reclaiming memories lost and lessons forgotten. This edited volume will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Japanese culture and society, Japanese literature, and pandemic studies.
Diva Nation
Diva Nation - 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 Diva Nation write by Laura Miller. This book was released on 2018-06-08. Diva Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.
Inside and Other Short Fiction
Inside and Other 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 Inside and Other Short Fiction write by Cathy Layne. This book was released on 2006-02-24. Inside and Other Short Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "These eight short stories explore the issue of female identity in a rapidly changing society, where women have unprecedented sexual and economic freedom. From teens to fifties; married, single, divorced; the high school girl, the career woman, the sex worker, the housewife, the mother - this anthology deals frankly and explicitly with a broad range of women's experiences, and showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women."--BOOK JACKET.
