More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology
Title | More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Kyoko Siden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1317464362 |
This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles. No other collection offers usch a diversity of women's voices
More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology
Title | More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Kyoko Siden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2014-12-18 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1317464354 |
This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles. No other collection offers usch a diversity of women's voices
Modern Japanese Stories
Title | Modern Japanese Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan I. Morris |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Inside and Other Short Fiction
Title | Inside and Other Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Layne |
Publisher | Planeta Publishing |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006-02-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9784770030061 |
"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.
Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction
Title | Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Noriko Mizuta Lippit |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015-03-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317466942 |
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
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories
Title | The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Kurahashi Yumiko |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2015-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317478312 |
This is an English-language anthology dedicated to the short stories of Kurahashi Yumiko (1935-), a Japanese novelist of profound intellectual powers. The eleven stories included in this volume suggest the breadth of the author's literary production, ranging from parodies of classical Japanese literature to cosmopolitan avant-garde works, from quasi-autobiography to science fiction. Her subversive fiction defies established definitions of "literature", "Japan", "modernity" and "femininity", and represents an important intellectual aspect of modern Japanese women's literature.
Woman Critiqued
Title | Woman Critiqued PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca L. Copeland |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780824829582 |
'Women Critiqued' offers English-language readers access to some of the salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other.