Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

Douglas N. Slaymaker is Associate Professor of Japanese and Director of the Japan Studies Program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The discourse on the body; Chapter 2 The (gendered) discourse and a (woman’s) body; Chapter 3 Tamura Taijir?; Chapter 4 Noma Hiroshi; Chapter 5 Sakaguchi Ango; Chapter 6 When women write postwar Japan; Conclusion;

'This book brings into focus a fascinating element in the background of contemporary Japanese culture' - Monumenta Nipponica