Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-200) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The discourse on the body; The (gendered) discourse and a (woman's) body; Tamura Taijir; Noma Hiroshi; Sakaguchi Ango; When women write postwar Japan; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse.
Ingram Content Group
9781134354023
Body in postwar Japanese fiction.
0415322251
Human body in literature.
Japanese fiction-- Shōwa period, 1926-1989-- History and criticism.