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Modern Japanese women writers as artists as cultural critics : Miyamoto, Ōba, Saegusa / Michiko Niikuni Wilson.
- Title
- Modern Japanese women writers as artists as cultural critics : Miyamoto, Ōba, Saegusa / Michiko Niikuni Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Michiko N.
- Publication
- Portland, Maine : MerwinAsia, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Description
- x, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The subject of this book has not received adequate attention from Japan specialists in North America. Translated and discussed here are critical essays by three of the most innovative, out-spoken, and provocative women writers in recent Japanese literary history: Yuriko Miyamoto (1899-1951), Saegusa Kazuko (1929- ), and Minako Oba (1930-2007) with the objective of, one, presenting a Japan that thrives in and on a multiplicity of voices, in contrast to its conformist image in the West; and, two, filling the critical need for English translations of primary sources aimed, in particular, at non-Japan specialists. The notion of women as "cultural critics" stretches back to the Heian era (797-1190 CE), and is notably exmplified by Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book (992 CE), which, with its wit, barbed references, and no-nonsense comments on life around her, has become part of the Japanese literary canon. Her legacy reappeared after a long hiatus in the generation of women writers who swiftly took advantage of the "Taisho (1911-1926) Democracy." The "Woman Question" debate in Japan today, which Japanese women view as a basic human rights issue, has been revisited by contemporary Japanese women writers who have also gradually developed a feminist credo that espouses the equality of men and women concomitant with the expansion of the emotional interaction and intellectual interchange between the sexes. Book jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Miyamoto, Ōba, Saegusa
- Subject
- Miyamoto, Yuriko, 1899-1951 > Criticism and interpretation
- Ōba, Minako > Criticism and interpretation
- Saegusa, Kazuko, 1929-2003 > Criticism and interpretation
- Miyamoto, Yuriko, 1899-1951
- Ōba, Minako
- Saegusa, Kazuko, 1929-2003
- Miyamoto, Yuriko 1899-1951
- Ōba, Minako 1930-2007
- Saegusa, Kazuko 1929-2003
- 1900-1999
- Women authors, Japanese > 20th century > Biography
- Authors as artists > Japan > 20th century > Biography
- Women critics > Japan > 20th century > Biography
- Écrivaines japonaises > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Écrivains artistes > Japon > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Femmes critiques > Japon > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Authors as artists
- Women authors, Japanese
- Women critics
- Autorin
- Japanische Literatur
- Japanisch
- Litteraturvetenskap > författare > Japan > 1900-talet
- Kvinnorörelsen > feminism
- Könsroller
- Literary studies > authors > Japan > 20th century
- Women's movement > feminism
- Gender roles
- Japanska kvinnliga författare
- Författare som konstnärer
- Kvinnliga litteraturkritiker
- Japan
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.
- Contents
- Yuriko Miyamoto -- Minako Oba -- Kazuko Saegusa -- ch. 1 Yuriko Miyamoto (1899-1951) -- Women's History: Following in the Footsteps of Literature -- What Is "Womanliness"? -- The Earth Still Moves -- ch. 2 Minako Oba (1930-2007) -- Using "The Eyes of the Other" to See the Self Objectively -- The Husband's Place, the Wife's Place -- Toronto Travel Notes -- The Human Archetype -- The Premonition of Living Creatures -- ch. 3 Kazuko Saegusa (1929-2003) -- In Lieu of an "Afterword" -- Regarding What Is a Woman? -- "Women's Logic, Women's Passion" -- Men's Responsibility in the Matter of Love -- You Mean All I Have to Do Is Marry and Get Pregnant?.
- ISBN
- 9780983299127
- 0983299129
- 9780983299134
- 0983299137
- LCCN
- 2012952900
- OCLC
- 851473946
- SCSB-10278413
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library