Japanese Women Writers
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Japanese Women Writers
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For decades, writing by women was treated as its own separate genre in Japan, joryu bungaku. In today's episode, we’ll start with an explanation of why joryu bungaku became its own separate genre.
We’ll move on to the story of women’s writing between the Meiji Era and the Pacific War and then immediately after the Pacific War.
We’ll zoom in on three writers who really changed the narrative for women’s writing in Japan—Taeko Kono, Takako Takahashi, and Yumiko Kurahashi—and then talk very briefly about how women’s writing has changed since these women debuted in the 1960s.
And we’ll wrap up with a discussion of Taeko Kono’s story “Toddler Hunting”, translated by Lucy North.
cw: sadism/masochism, violence against women and children, rape as motifs and in fiction
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