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Writing pregnancy in low-fertility Japan / Amanda C. Seaman.
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Seaman, Amanda C., 1966-
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English
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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
©2017
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ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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East Asian Library - Western Languages
PL725 .S43 2017
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Japanese literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Japanese literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Pregnancy in literature
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Childbirth in literature
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Summary note
Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan is a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. While earlier authors such as Yosano Akiko had addressed the pain and emotional complexities of childbearing in their poetry and prose, the topic quickly moved into the literary shadows when motherhood became enshrined as a duty to state and sovereign in the 1930s and 40s. This reproductive imperative endured after World War II, spurred by a need to create a new generation of citizens and consumers for a new, peacetime nation. It was only in the 1960s, in the context of a flowering of feminist thought and activism, that more critical and nuanced appraisals of pregnancy and motherhood began to appear. In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman analyzes the literary manifestations of this new critical approach, in the process introducing readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors (including horror and fantasy, short stories, novels, memoir, and manga), the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein. This pregnancy literature, Seaman argues, serves as an important yet rarely considered forum for exploring and debating not only the particular experiences of the pregnant mother-to-be, but the broader concerns of Japanese women about their bodies, their families, their life choices, and the meaning of motherhood for individuals and for Japanese society. It will be of interest to scholars of modern Japanese literature and women s history, as well as those concerned with gender studies, feminism, and popular culture in Japan and beyond. -- Amazon.com.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-221) and index.
Contents
Write your mother : finding a space for pregnancy in Japanese literature
Hey, you, get out of my womb! : pregnancy as invasion
And baby makes one : pregnancy as escape
Manual labor : pregnancy as partnership
Riding the wave : facing pain in the pregnancy manga
Em-bawdy-ing pregnancy : Uchida Shungiku takes on the man.
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ISBN
9780824859886 ((hard cover ; : alk. paper))
082485988X ((hard cover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016032949
OCLC
968182846
Other standard number
40026720931
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