Stories By Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351716482

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Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) by Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden Pdf

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.

Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0873322231

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Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers by Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden Pdf

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings on world history and related topics.

Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351716499

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Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983) by Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden Pdf

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.

Author : Kyoko Siden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781317464365

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More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology by Kyoko Siden Pdf

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

Author : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772892684

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Japanese Women Novelists in the 20th Century by Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck,Marlene R. Edelstein Pdf

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.

Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317466932

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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by Noriko Mizuta Lippit,Kyoko Iriye Selden Pdf

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

Author : Chieko Mulhern
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032278460

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Japanese Women Writers by Chieko Mulhern Pdf

Women have made many important contributions to Japanese literature since the Heian period (794-1192), when Murasaki Shikibu wrote her prose masterpiece, The Tale of Genji. Even earlier, though documentation is scant, women actively participated in Japanese letters as poets. This reference is a guide to the work of Japanese women writers from centuries ago to the present day. The volume includes 58 alphabetically arranged biographical and critical profiles of these women. The book profiles women writers who are considered mainstream writers in Japan and who have attracted attention in the West, chiefly through translations of their works and critical scholarship on their writings. Each entry discusses the subject's life, career, major works, and works in English translation. A bibliography concludes each article. While most of the women are poets, novelists, or authors of classical narrative fiction, the book also includes entries for premodern diarists, modern dramatists, television script writers, and movie scenario writers. An extensive bibliography and chronology conclude the volume.

Author : Rebecca L. Copeland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780824863395

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Lost Leaves by Rebecca L. Copeland Pdf

Most Japanese literary historians have suggested that the Meiji Period (1868-1912) was devoid of women writers but for the brilliant exception of Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896). Rebecca Copeland challenges this claim by examining in detail the lives and literary careers of three of Ichiyo's peers, each representative of the diversity and ingenuity of the period: Miyake Kaho (1868-1944), Wakamatsu Shizuko (1864-1896), and Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933). In a carefully researched introduction, Copeland establishes the context for the development of female literary expression. She follows this with chapters on each of the women under consideration. Miyake Kaho, often regarded as the first woman writer of modern Japan, offers readers a vision of the female vitality that is often overlooked when discussing the Meiji era. Wakamatsu Shizuko, the most prominent female translator of her time, had a direct impact on the development of a modern written language for Japanese prose fiction. Shimizu Shikin reminds readers of the struggle women endured in their efforts to balance their creative interests with their social roles. Interspersed throughout are excerpts from works under discussion, most never before translated, offering an invaluable window into this forgotten world of women's writing.

Author : Yukiko Tanaka
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786481972

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Women Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan by Yukiko Tanaka Pdf

After centuries of repression of the female voice in literature, the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods in Japanese history saw important changes in both the way women wrote and the way they were read. However, even the most accepted female writers of these two eras were judged by criteria different from those applied to men, and only the most conservative were praised by the (male) critics. This study of the women who wrote in the modern era examines both famous and now-obscure writers within the context of their moments in time and their influence on later generations of Japanese women writers. Arranged chronologically, the book covers the pioneering women of the early Meiji period, the ethos of reactionary conservatism, the romantic movement in poetry, women writers of the naturalist school, Taisho liberalism, and the new era of literary women. An introduction outlines the various schools of Japanese female writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the social and cultural trends that helped produce them. The text is appropriate for both well-read scholars of Japanese literature and newcomers to the works of the "fair ladies of the back chamber," as these creative and driven writers were once called.

Author : Yukiko Tanaka,Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015042826068

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This Kind of Woman by Yukiko Tanaka,Elizabeth Hanson Pdf

Author : Yukiko Tanaka,Elizabeth Hanson
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39076000448766

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This Kind of Woman by Yukiko Tanaka,Elizabeth Hanson Pdf

Author : Rebecca L. Copeland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824829581

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Woman Critiqued by Rebecca L. Copeland Pdf

'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.

Author : Joan E. Ericson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824818849

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Be a Woman by Joan E. Ericson Pdf

Joan Ericson's magnificent survey of writing by Japanese women significantly advances the current debate over the literary category of "women's literature" in modern Japan and demonstrates its significance in the life and work of twentieth-century Japan's most important woman writer, Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). Until the early 1980s, the literary category of "women's literature" (joryu bungaku) segregated most writing by modern Japanese women from the literary canon. "Women's literature" was viewed as a sentimental and impressionistic literary style that was popular but was critically disparaged. A close scrutiny of Hayashi Fumiko's work--in particular the two pieces masterfully translated here, the immensely popular novel Horoki (Diary of a Vagabond) and Suisen (Narcissus)--shows the inadequacies of categorizing her writing as "women's literature." Its originality and power are rooted in the clarity and immediacy with which Hayashi is able to convey the humanity of those occupying the underside of Japanese society, especially women.

Author : Paul Gordon Schalow,Janet A. Walker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804727228

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The Woman’s Hand by Paul Gordon Schalow,Janet A. Walker Pdf

This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature.

Author : P.F. Kornicki,Mara Patessio,G. Rowley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781929280650

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The Female as Subject by P.F. Kornicki,Mara Patessio,G. Rowley Pdf

The Female as Subject presents 11 essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examining what women of different social classes read, what books were produced specifically for women, and the genres in which women themselves chose to write. The authors explore the different types of education women obtained and the levels of literacy they achieved, and they uncover women’s participation in the production of books, magazines, and speeches. The resulting depiction of women as readers and writers is also enhanced by thirty black-and-white illustrations. For too long, women have been largely absent from accounts of cultural production in early modern Japan. By foregrounding women, the essays in this book enable us to rethink what we know about Japanese society during these centuries. The result is a new history of women as readers, writers, and culturally active agents. The Female as Subject is essential reading for all students and teachers of Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods. It also provides valuable comparative data for scholars of the history of literacy and the book in East Asia.