Outsider Within

Ten Essays on Modern Japanese Women Writers

By: Mizuho Terasawa (Editor), Tomoko Kuribayashi (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 April 2002

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The Outsider Within contains ten articles written by new and veteran scholars of Japanese women writers, both from the U.S. and abroad, with a focus on their fictional works available in English translation. Preceded by a general introduction, which discusses the position of the Japanese woman writer as an outsider within their native society, the ten essays offer general information on Japanese women''s literature, society, and culture, along with detailed analyses of individual works.

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Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Note on Japanese Names	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Modern Writing--The Renaissance	p. 1
Desire for Autonomy and Connection: Tamura Toshiko's Female Characters	p. 3
Flower Power: Nature, Art, and Woman in Okamoto Kanoko's "A Floral Pageant"	p. 19
Post-World War II Writers--The Pioneers	p. 37
Reclaiming the Critical Voice in Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years	p. 39
Setouchi Jakucho: Female Subjectivity in the Exploration of "Self," Sexuality, and Spirituality	p. 63
Exploring New Women's Lives--Confronting the M/Other	p. 89
A Defiant Muse: Reading and Situating Kurahashi Yumiko's Narrative Subjectivity	p. 91
The Ordinary and the Marginal: The Significance of Mother in Tomioka Taeko's Works	p. 113
Fantasies of Maternal Ambivalence in Takahashi Takako's "Congruent Figures"	p. 131
Yamamoto Michiko's Betei-san no niwa: Anxiety Displaced	p. 153
Younger Writers--Women's New Places	p. 173
Sharing Sex, Sharing Meals: A Discussion of Hayashi Mariko's Works	p. 175
Destabilization of Gender in New Age Japanese Women's Literature: Yoshimoto Banana and Arai Motoko	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 207
About the Contributors	p. 217
Index	p. 219
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