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Where the Wild Ladies Are
In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable lanterns; a cheerful lover who visits every night to take a luxurious bath; a silent house-caller who babysits and cleans while a single mother is out working. Where the Wild Ladies Are is populated by these and many other spirited women—who also happen to be ghosts. This is a realm in which jealousy, stu...
The Girl who is Getting Married
An unnamed narrator visits her friend, the girl who is getting married, in her apartment on the fifth floor of an anonymous building. With each flight of steps, the narrator recalls different memories of the time they have spent together their time in high school, their first jobs, a chance encounter on the train. However, just as the building's corridor twists and turn toward the flat, we realise that the story, too, is shifting under our feet. As details go missing and memories are contradicted, we are left wondering whose eyes we re looking through.
Where the Wild Ladies are
Witty, inventive, and profound, Matsuda Aoko's collection of linked stories is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional Japanese ghost stories. As female ghosts appear in unexpected guises, their gently humorous encounters with unsuspecting humans lead to deeper questions about emancipation and recent changes in Japanese women's lives.
Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 2: Travel
Contemporary Japanese fiction in English translation, as well as other works both old and new by writers, artists, and translators from Japan, England, Canada, and the U.S.
Voiced and Voiceless in Asia
This volume consists of 19 chapters that reflect the titular theme - Voiced and Voiceless in Asia - from a variety of angles, making use of diverse scholarly approaches and disciplines, while focusing specifically on China, India, Japan, and Taiwan. The chapters are broadly divided into two parts: (1) Politics and Society, and (2) Arts and Literature, although the texts included in the second part also deal with social themes. In addition to historical topics, such as Japanese colonialism or Chinese agricultural reforms in the 1950s, the volume also addresses current issues, including restrictive Chinese policies in Xinjiang, Japanese activist movements against gender-based violence and disc...
Where The Wild Ladies Are
Selamat datang di semesta perempuan liar. Para perempuan ini, yang kebetulan adalah hantu dan dedemit berkemampuan khusus, akan datang menghibur kalian para manusia yang sedang merasa tertekan oleh tuntutan dunia modern. Ada seorang bibi yang tidak setuju prosedur penghilangan bulu badan; ada siluman rubah yang mempertanyakan kebodohan hidup manusia; ada hantu perempuan yang membantu para ibu tunggal untuk mengasuh anak dan membersihkan rumah; dan masih banyak lagi hantu dan dedemit berkemampuan khusus yang akan menunjukkan kepada kalian bahwa kecemburuan, kekeraskepalaan, dan semua sifat yang katanya berlebihan itu tidak perlu ditakuti apalagi ditekan, bahkan seharusnya dikembangkan. Dalam ...
Nel paese delle donne selvagge
Nel paese delle donne selvagge possiede una speciale alchimia che regala un’esperienza di lettura indimenticabile. Questo libro trascina il lettore e lo invita a una nuova visione del mondo. Così ci si ritrova a scoprire figure spesso ignorate o invisibili. «Dovreste leggere questo libro perché abbina quella sensazione misteriosa di paura tipica del folklore giapponese con una sensibilità stravagante e contemporanea». The New Yorker «Storie di fantasmi, demoni, scheletri... racconti popolari in chiave femminista». The Guardian La raccolta di racconti di Matsuda Aoko, Nel paese delle donne selvagge, osa e mostra un’ampia serie di intrecci narrativi. Il tono varia, passando dal comm...
Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan
Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazōshi to gain comprehensive knowledge of the field. For the specialist, our edited volume marks a turning point in scholarship, uncovering fresh research avenues. While exploring the powerful effects of the visual-verbal imagination, this collection opens up bold new vistas on the act of reading and advances provocations around comics and manga. Contributors are: Jaqueline Berndt, Joseph Bills, Michael Emmerich, Adam L. Kern, Fumiko Kobayashi, Frederick Feilden, Laura Moretti, Matsubara Noriko, Satō Satoru, Satō Yukiko, Satoko Shimazaki, Takagi Gen, Tanahashi Masahiro, Ellis Tinios, Tsuda Mayumi and, Glynne Walley.
Fukushima Fiction
Fukushima Fiction introduces readers to the powerful literary works that have emerged out of Japan’s triple disaster, now known as 3/11. The book provides a broad and nuanced picture of the varied literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on “serious fiction” (junbungaku), the one area of Japanese cultural production that has consistently addressed the disaster and its aftermath. Examining short stories and novels by both new and established writers, author Rachel DiNitto effectively captures this literary tide and names it after the nuclear accident that turned a natural disaster into an environmental and political catastrophe. The book takes a spatial approach to a new lit...
