Unmapped Territories by Yukiko Tanaka (.ePUB)
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Unmapped Territories: New Women’s Fiction from Japan by Yukiko Tanaka (Editor)
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Overview: The changing roles of Japanese women are convincingly evoked in this collection of seven stories; here women discover different sides of themselves and alternate selves. In Taeko Tomioka’s powerful “Straw Dogs,” an unmarried, middle-aged woman acts out a role normally reserved for men when she takes a series of young lovers. Perhaps to avenge the way she has been treated in a male-dominated society, she lures men to hotel rooms, seduces them, then destroys their sexuality and taunts them with questions like “What would you do if we had a baby?” In Minako Ohba’s “Candle Fish” a wife and mother, living discontentedly with her husband in Alaska, dreams she is “transformed into a yamanba, the old witch of the mountain” who eats the flesh of young men. But her satisfaction comes from her friendship with Olga, whose tale of marriage to a self-centered musician spurs the narrator toward self-fulfillment through writing.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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