Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers

<p>This book explores desire through the work of a new generation of Japanese women writers in response to the increased attention these writers have received following the release of their work in the English language.</p><p>The contributions explore a wide range of theoretical approaches and psychoanalytic interpretations to reading a new generation of Japanese women writers’ relationships to identity sex/gender and desire. Through dealing with female spaces maternal roles gendered bodies or resistant speech acts the book uncovers the overarching theme of desire – desire for language touch and recognition. Focusing on authors who have previously been underrepresented in English-language scholarship the book highlights the diverse nature and the important synergies of writing by women in the last few decades. </p><p>Addressing experimental and nonconforming authors whose works challenge gender and culture expectation as well as Orientalist myths this will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian literature Japanese culture and Asian studies.</p>