Research Catalog

Title

Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures : women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan / by Kazue Harada.

Author

Harada, Kazue

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Details

Description

xi, 214 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers of novels and manga employ the perspectives of aliens, cyborgs, and bioengineered entities to critique the social realities of women, particularly with respect to reproduction, which they also re-imagine in radical ways. Harada examines the various meanings of (re)production in light of feminist and queer studies and offers close readings of works by novelists Murata Sayaka, Ōhara Mariko, Ueda Sayuri and manga artists Hagio Moto and Shirai Yumiko. Scholarship of SF in Japanese studies has primarily focused on male authors, but this book shows not only how women writers have created a space in SF and speculative fiction but how their work can be seen as a response to particular social norms and government policies"--

Series Statement

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; volume 70

Uniform Title

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 70.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Japanese fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Speculative fiction > History and criticism
• Japanese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Japanese fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
• Comic books, strips, etc. > Japan > History and criticism
• Human reproduction in literature
• Sex in literature
• Speculative fiction
• Comic books, strips, etc
• Japanese fiction
• Japanese fiction > Women authors
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Literary criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Washington University, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures: Women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan -- Imaginaries beyond X/Y: The desire for biological diversity and the (re)productive burden -- Playing with (re)productive process and time: Cyborg gender panic and simulacra of the daughter-mother continuum -- The re-engineered heterosexual family and engineered sexless (re)productive kinships -- Defamiliarizing wombs and imagining new surrogacy in the colonial state -- Queer family and queer futurity: No future for humanity? -- Conclusion: The future of the present and the future of the past in Japanese speculative and science fiction.

Call Number

JFE 23-1240

ISBN

• 9789004468832
• 9004468838
• 9789004468849 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2021051997
• 40030966531

OCLC

1256627980

Author

Harada, Kazue, author.

Title

Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures : women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan / by Kazue Harada.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; volume 70

Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 70.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Other Form:

Online version: Harada, Kazue. Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 9789004468849 (DLC) 2021051998

Other Standard Identifier

40030966531

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1240