Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers: A Special Collection of Essays [Hardcover]

Introduction  1. The Step to Trample the Unexplored: Family, School Girlishness (Joshi kMkMsei rashisa), and Lesbian Panic in Matsuura Riekos Saiai no kodomo (The Most Beloved Child, 2017)  2. Body and/as Food: Rediscovering Female Subjectivity through the Mother-Daughter Dyad in Kawakami Hiromis Manazuru (2006)  3. Intersectional Identity in the Works of Tawada YMko: An Analysis of Unhomely Sounds in the Mother Tongue  4. Writing and Being Written: Approaches to Reading the Narrative of Kanai Miekos Mado (Window, 1979)  5. Envisioning Community through Womens Spaces: Body, Precarity, and Language in Kawakami Miekos Natsu monogatari (Breasts and Eggs, 2019)  6. Writing a Place for Politics in the Space of Capital: Oyamada Hirokos KMjM (The Factory, 2013)

This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language.

This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers, in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language.

The contributions explore a wide range of theoretical approaches and psychoanalytic interpretations to reading a new generation of Japanese women writers relationships to identity, sex/gender, and desire. Through dealing with female spaces, maternal roles, gendered bodies, or resistant speech acts, the book uncovers the overarching theme of desire  desire for language, touch, and recognition. Focusing on authors who have previously been underrepresented in English-language scholarship, the book highlights the diverse nature and the importalSè