Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan 9780824864569

In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Producing Writing Subjects: Women in the Interwar Years
2. Politics Rooted in Everyday Life: Oku Mumeo’s Fires Burning Brightly (Nobi aka aka to)
3. Changing Consciousness Takai Toshio’s My Own Sad History of Female Textile Workers (Watashi no jokō aishi)
4. Her Mother’s Voice Nishi Kiyoko’s Reminiscences (Tsuioku)
5. Re-presenting the Self Sata Ineko’s Between the Lines of My Personal Chronology (Nen’pu no gyōkan)
6. Resisting Authority Fukunaga Misao’s Recollections of a Female Communist (Aru onna kyôsanshugisha no kaisô)
7. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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