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Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers

Book by Nina Cornyetz; Stanford University, 1999

Subjects:

Enchi, Fumiko--1905-, Feminism and literature, Izumi, Kyoka--1873-1939, Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism, Nakagami, Kenji, Sex in literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...beginning of his career as a writer of fiction, were all intertwined...writer, Aikura Hisato, used a Japanese translation of Amiri Baraka...1960s discourse on jazz in Japanese. In a 1968 special issue of...geijutsu on modern jazz, the Japanese commentators repeatedly rely...
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Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Book by Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden; M.E. Sharpe, 1991

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Japanese Fiction--20th Century--Translations Into English, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--Translations Into English, Short Stories, Japanese--Translations Into English, Women--Japan--Social Life And Customs--Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for their works. Although Japanese women had historically maintained...prepared to accept only those writers who wrote on such typical...expertise. The fact that Japanese literary criticism to this...erotic beauty, is the woman writer most enthusiastically hailed...literary assessment of women writers works, fundamental ideas...
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The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908-1940: Between Samurai and Carnival

Book by Stewart Lone; Palgrave, 2001

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Brazil--Ethnic Relations, Japanese--Brazil

Collections: History, Entire Library

...contrast to the contemporary images of Japanese militarism, or the later scholarship...novel Brazil-Maru by American-Japanese writer Karen Tei Yamashita is closer to...Brazil referring irreverently to the Japanese emperor as Ten-chan a sobriquet...
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Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader

Book by Michele Marra; University of Hawaii Press, 1999

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Aesthetics, Japanese--19th Century, Aesthetics, Japanese--20th Century

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...readers that the formation of a Japanese subjectivity at the end of the...argues that the sudden interest of Japanese writers in childrens literature, for...of innocence on the part of a Japanese writer who wants to see the world from...
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Daughters of the Moon: Wish, Will, and Social Constraint in Fiction by Modern Japanese Women

Book by Victoria V. Vernon; Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988

Subjects:

Fiction, Japanese Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Japanese Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that the experience of the Japanese woman writer has a particular...Because the Heian prose writer was so successful as an artist...first mainstream. Thus, all Japanese writers, male or female, are to...generally been regarded by the Japanese as a symbol of weakness or...

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Journal Articles on: japanese writer

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Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir

Journal article by Linda Trinh Moser; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 26, 2009

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir (Autobiography)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...America," she writes, "I was Japanese. In Japan I was American...toward Asians, particularly the Japanese, Tamagawa shares details about...asks, for example, "Was I a Japanese doll, or a menace?" (92...sisters and American expatriate writers to information about the memoirs...
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Aspects of Love in Contemporary Japanese Fiction by Women Writers

Journal article by Orie Muta; Hecate, Vol. 16, 1990

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Asians, Literature, Women

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...discuss fiction by contemporary Japanese women writers in an attempt...subject of poetry and fiction in Japanese literature was mostly physical...Eleventh centuries, authors of Japanese prose and poetry were mainly...cornerstone of the state, female writers questioned the institution...1891). The proletarian writer, Miyamoto Yuriko (1899...
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Japanese Utopian Literature from the 1870s to the Present and the Influence of Western Utopianism(*)

Journal article by Yoriko Moichi; Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, 1999

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Japanese literature--20th century, Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Japanese contact with the Western world, Japanese writers reception of Western literature was also...Abe is often described as "the first Japanese writer whose works, having no distinctly Japanese qualities, are of interest to the Western...
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Nineteenth-century Southern Writers and the Tropical Sublime

Journal article by John W. Lowe; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 48, 2011

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Writers

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...secular age gained strength and writers sought new means to express...scope, the only southern writer who receives extended attention...reverie by focusing on two writers who, many decades after Bartram...family and became a celebrated Japanese writer. A devotee of Poe, Baudelaire...
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Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature

Journal article by Atsuko Ueda; CLIO, Vol. 36, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. By Hosea Hirata...number of modern and contemporary Japanese writers and critics, some better known...the best-known contemporary Japanese writer in the United States. Equally...

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Magazine Articles on: japanese writer

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The Month of Cherry Blossom: Elegiac and Exquisite, the Fictions of Yasunari Kawabata Were among the Most Memorable of the 20th Century. Jason Cowley on a Writer Who Knew the Value of Silence

Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 135, August 21, 2006

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Authors--Appreciation, Authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Authors--Works, Kawabata, Yasunari--Appreciation, Kawabata, Yasunari--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kawabata, Yasunari--Works, Writers--Appreciation, Writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Writers--Works

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...Was this sadness common to all Japanese, as he would have us believe? Or...century literature, the last major writer to work in the "classical" Japanese tradition. Today, the Japanese writers most familiar to western readers...
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To Translate the Shaking: Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry (and Coaxing It into English)

Magazine article by Malinda Markham; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Japanese poetry, Japanese poetry--Analysis, Japanese poetry--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with the male writers on the left and...that correctly. Japanese literature is divided...well, and women writers have been commended...unified poetic. As a writer, I have a distrust...the attention of Japanese poets and critics...the poets part. Japanese poets generally...I, an American writer, would. I have...
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Between Bushido and Black Humour: Stewart Lone Looks beyond the Idea of the Impassive, Self-Sacrificing Citizen to Discover How Ordinary Japanese People Really Reacted to the War with Russia, 1904-05

Magazine article by Stewart Lone; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005

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Bushido--Analysis, Bushido--Influence, Japanese (Asian people)--Analysis, Japanese (Asian people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Japanese--Analysis, Japanese--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--Analysis, Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--History, Stereotype (Psychology)--Influence, Stereotypes (Psychology)--Influence

Collections: Psychology, History, Entire Library

...alternative. While the Japanese people showed goodwill...at themselves. As one writer to a local newspaper...however, did not halt the Japanese Temperance Society which...back the troops. As one writer noted, this was a vain...of victory among the Japanese people was a sake dish...
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Japanese Law and Trade Relations

Magazine article; World and I, Vol. 14, August 1999

Subjects:

International economic relations--History, Japan--International trade, Japanese foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--Japan

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...No matter how one looks at Japanese trade regulations and practices...maintained for the benefit of Japanese businessmen. These legal...journalist who was a staff writer at the Mainichi Daily News...He is now a naturalized Japanese.
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Guilt, Identity, and Japaneseness: If We Are to Love Japan, We Must Learn to Forgive the Japanese. This Will Never Be Easy, since the Japanese Do Not Seek Collective Forgiveness and Believe They Did Nothing as a Nation That Might Make It Necessary

Magazine article by Robert Fulford; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 113, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Japan--History, Japan--Social aspects, Japanese (Asian people)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Japanese (Asian people)--History, Japanese (Asian people)--Social aspects, Japanese--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Japanese--History, Japanese--Social aspects

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...was Taut (and many writers since) correct in arguing that this was truly a Japanese building, and that...nineteenth-century Japanese prints had been absorbed...Buruma, a brilliant writer on Japan, noted last...etc.) that many Japanese consider polluted...

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Newspaper Articles on: japanese writer

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Sad Farewell to One of Our Greatest War Heroes; Victoria Cross Recipient Sank Japanese Warship

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 3, 2008

Subjects:

Cross, Victoria (British writer)--Appreciation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Heroes; Victoria Cross Recipient Sank Japanese Warship. Byline: BY BEN SCHOFIELD Daily...death-defying under-water raid on a Japanese ship during World War II, passed away...battle. He and his crew blew up the Japanese ship Takeo off the coast of Singapore...
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Japanese Author Says Gender Equity Will Cure Social Ills

Newspaper article by Cheryl Wetzstein; The Washington Times, May 10, 1999

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Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Japanese author says gender equity will cure social...LUMPUR, Malaysia - "`The brain of a Japanese man is so slow to change," laments Tomoko Inukai, a maverick Japanese writer. Miss Inukai believes that unless Japans...
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THE BAYONET BUTCHERS; One of the Worst Atrocities in History Is Dismissed in a New Japanese Text Book as a Mere 'Incident', Sparking Riots across China. So What Is the Truth about the Rape of Nanking?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 19, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...nurse who treated her in hospital - many Japanese deny poor, mutilated Xiuying Lis story. One Japanese writer in Tokyo has recently stated that Xiuying...claim the Rape of Nanking was just anti-Japanese propaganda. So what really happened...
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The Making of a Writer and His Search for True Self

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 4, 2007

Subjects:

Begley, Louis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Making of a Writer and His Search for True Self. Byline...astonishing late-blooming career as a writer took place even as he continued to...at one point forming a bond with "a Japanese writer" that causes him to spend winters...
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I Found Love. Then I Found He Had a Wife Already; Doomed Marriage of a Japanese Career Girl Who Fell for the Lies of a Conman

Newspaper article by Conor Hanna; The Mirror (London, England), February 15, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Already; Doomed Marriage of a Japanese Career Girl Who Fell for the...kind and a great lover of Japanese culture". The writer claimed to run his own business...faxes and letters from other Japanese girls he had met through the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: japanese writer

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Tanizaki, Junichiro

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...joone chero tane zake, 1886 1965, Japanese writer. A prolific writer whose popularity...of life, it was the first major Japanese work of the post World War II period...selected short stories of Seven Japanese Tales (tr. 1963) and The Gourmet...
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Oe, Kenzaburo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

OE, KENZABURO ken zaboor o o a, 1935 , Japanese writer, b. Ose, on the island of Shikoku. At 18, he left...realistic style set him apart from the mainstream Japanese literary tradition. Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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Natsume Soseki

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

NATSUME SOSEKI na tsoo me so se ke, 1867 1916, Japanese writer. Soseki ranks along with Mori Ogai as one of two giants of early modern Japanese letters. Although Soseki began his career as a scholar of English literature...
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Ihara Saikaku

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

IHARA SAIKAKU e ha ra si ka koo, 1642 93, Japanese writer. Saikaku began his literary career as a haikai comic linked verse poet, astonishing contemporaries with his skill at composing...
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Hayashi Fumiko

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HAYASHI FUMIKO ha ya she foo me ko,1903 51, Japanese novelist and short-story writer. The daughter of an itinerant peddlar, Hayashi was raised in abject poverty. After finishing school, she moved to Tokyo to...

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