Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface: The Color Red
Introduction: When Women Write
Part 1 Expanding Genre and the Exploration of Gendered Writing
Chapter 1 When Women Write History: Nogami Yaeko, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Nagai Michiko
Chapter 2 Writing Within and Beyond Genre: Ōkura Teruko, Miyano Murako, Togawa Masako, Miyabe Miyuki, and Minato Kanae and Mystery Fiction
Chapter 3 Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ōhara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri
Part 2 Owning the Classics
Chapter 4 Tales of Ise Grows Up: Higuchi Ichiyō, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Kawakami Mieko
Chapter 5 Japanese Women Writers and Folktales: “Urashima Tarō” in the Literary Production of Ōba Minako and Kurahashi Yumiko
Chapter 6 Women and the Non-human Animal: Rewriting the Canine Classic—Tsushima Yūko, Tawada Yōko, Matsuura Rieko, and Sakuraba Kazuki
Part 3 Sexual Trauma, Survival and the Search for the Good Life
Chapter 7 Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko
Chapter 8 Voicing Herstory’s Silence: Three Women Playwrights—Hasegawa Shigure, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Dakemoto Ayumi
Chapter 9 Writing Women’s Happiness in the 1980s: Labor and Care in Kometani Foumiko, Hayashi Mariko and Yoshimoto Banana
Chapter 10 Risky Business: Overcoming Traumatic Experiences in the Works of Kakuta Mitsuyo and Kanehara Hitomi
Part 4 Food, Family, and the Feminist Appetite
Chapter 11 Watching the Detectives: Writing as Feminist Praxis in Enchi Fumiko and Kurahashi Yumiko
Chapter 12 Food as Feminist Critique: Osaki Midori, Kanai Mieko, and Ogawa Yōko
Part 5 Beyond the Patriarchal Family
Chapter 13 “The Mommy Trap”: Childless Women Write Motherhood—Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka
Chapter 14 Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka
Part 6 Age is Just a Number
Chapter 15 Beyond Shōjo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood—Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko
Chapter 16 Writing the Aged Woman: Enchi Fumiko and Tanabe Seiko
Chapter 17 Humor and Aging: Ogino Anna, Itō Hiromi, and Kanai Mieko
Part 7 Colonies, War, Aftermath
Chapter 18 Women and War: Yosano Akiko and Hayashi Fumiko
Chapter 19 Women and Colonies: Shanghai and Manchuria in the Autobiographical Writings of Hayashi Kyōko, Sawachi Hisae, and Miyao Tomiko
Chapter 20 Women and Aftermath: Koza as Topos in Literature from Okinawa—Tōma Hiroko, Yoshida Sueko, and Sakiyama Tami
Part 8 Environment and Disaster
Chapter 21 Writing Human Disaster: Hayashi Kyōko, Ishimure Michiko, and Kawakami Hiromi
Chapter 22 Teeming Up with Life: Reading the Environment in Ishimure Michiko, Hayashi Fumiko, and Osaki Midori
Part 9 Crossing Borders: Writing Transnationally
Chapter 23 Women and the Ethnic Body: Lee Jungja, Yū Miri, and Che Sil
Chapter 24 Transnational Narratives and Travel Writing: Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Takako, and Yi Yangji
Index