近代日本女性の自伝文学 Telling Lives : Women's Self-writing in Modern Japan

Loftus, Ronald P. (EDT)

University of Hawai'i Press（2004/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780824827533
• DDC分類 895.68440308

基本説明

This collection of translations, looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II: Oku Mumeo, Takai Toshio, Nishi Kyoko, Sata Ineko, Fukunaga Misao.

Full Description

In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II. Following an introduction that situates women's self-writing against the backdrop of Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, Loftus takes up the autobiographies of Oku Mumeo, a leader of the prewar women's movement, and Takai Toshio, a textile worker who later became a well-known labor activist. Next is the moving story of Nishi Kyoko, whose Reminiscences tells of her life as a young woman who escapes the oppression of her family and establishes her financial independence. Nishi's narrative precedes a detailed look at the autobiography of Sato Ineko. Sato's Between the Lines of My Personal Chronology recounts her years as a member of a proletarian arts circle and her struggle to become a writer. The collection ends with the Marxist Fukunaga Misao's frank and explosive text Memoirs of a Female Communist, which is examined as a manifesto condemning the male chauvinism of the prewar Japanese Communist Party.