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Author:

Harada, Kazue, author.

Title:

Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures : women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan / by Kazue Harada.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xi, 214 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

1900-2099
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Speculative fiction, Japanese--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan--History and criticism.
Human reproduction in literature.
Sex in literature.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Human reproduction in literature.
Japanese fiction.
Japanese fiction--Women authors.
Sex in literature.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Notes:

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Washington University, 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-203) and index.

Summary:

"Contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers of novels and manga employ the perspectives of aliens, cyborgs, and bioengineered entities to critique the social realities of women, particularly with respect to reproduction, which they also re-imagine in radical ways. Harada examines the various meanings of (re)production in light of feminist and queer studies and offers close readings of works by novelists Murata Sayaka, Ōhara Mariko, Ueda Sayuri and manga artists Hagio Moto and Shirai Yumiko. Scholarship of SF in Japanese studies has primarily focused on male authors, but this book shows not only how women writers have created a space in SF and speculative fiction but how their work can be seen as a response to particular social norms and government policies"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; volume 70

ISBN:

9004468838
9789004468832

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1256627980

LCCN:

2021051997

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)