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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Japan Magazine
Author: The Japan Magazine
Author: Japan Magazine
Author: The Japan Magazine
Author: The Monocle Book of Japan
Author: Tyler BrûléPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500971079
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Monocle team celebrates the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan.
The Japan Magazine
Author: Age of Shojo
Author: Hiromi Tsuchiya DollasePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438473915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaking their ideas in the pages of girls’ magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions, and their shōjo characters’ “immature” qualities and social marginality gave them the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Dollase details the transformation of Japanese girls’ fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s by discussing the adaptation of Western stories, including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls’ fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and the new era of empowered postwar fiction. The bookhighlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko’s dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo’s social realism, Morita Tama’s autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize–winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. Using girls’ perspectives, these authors addressed social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality. “This book provides many fascinating, perceptive, and fresh insights into a variety of aspects of girls’ literature and culture, which have not yet been discussed in English.” — Helen Kilpatrick, author of Miyazawa Kenji and His Illustrators: Images of Nature and Buddhism in Japanese Children’s Literature
Japan Magazine
Author: Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 1: Food
Author: Ted GoossenPublisher: Monkey
ISBN: 9780997248067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
For readers who love Haruki Murakami and want to be introduced to other exciting contemporary Japanese writers, especially women writers
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