Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction: Twentieth Century Short Fiction (Japan in the Modern World (Paperback))

This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought.'Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters.... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged'. -- The New York Times Book Review The Family Of Koiwai / Miyamoto Yuriko -- The Full Moon / Nogami Yaeko -- Blind Chinese Soldiers / Hirabayashi Taiko -- Narcissus / Hayashi Fumiko -- Residues Of Squalor / Ōta Yōko -- Memory Of A Night / Sata Ineko -- Love In Two Lives : The Remnant / Enchi Fumiko -- Ants Swarm / Kōno Taeko -- To Stab / Uno Chiyo -- Facing The Hills They Stand / Tomioka Taeko -- Congruent Figures / Takahashi Takako -- The Smile Of A Mountain Witch / Ohba Minako -- Yellow Sand / Hayashi Kyōko -- In The Pot / Murata Kiyoko. Translated And Edited By Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden. An East Gate Book.