Writing pregnancy in low-fertility Japan /
This text is a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. While earlier authors such as Yosano Akiko had addressed the pain and emotional complexities of childbearing in their poetry and prose, the topic quickly moved into the literary sha...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Write your mother : finding a space for pregnancy in Japanese literature
- Hey, you, get out of my womb! : pregnancy as invasion
- And baby makes one : pregnancy as escape
- Manual labor : pregnancy as partnership
- Riding the wave : facing pain in the pregnancy manga
- Em-bawdy-ing pregnancy : Uchida Shungiku takes on the man.