Mad Wives and Island Dreams : : Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature / / Philip Gabriel.
Hailed by the noted critic Karatani Kojin as a more important and lasting writer than Mishima, Shimao Toshio (1917-1986) remains almost unknown in the West. Several of his short stories have appeared in English translation, yet it is only now, with the publication of Philip Gabriel's comprehens...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Self-Apocalypse: Tales of the Tokkōtai
- 2. Dreams and the Alphabet of Trauma
- 3. Out of the Abyss: The “Sick Wife Stories”
- 4 Island Dreams: Yaponesia and the Cultural Unconscious
- Afterword
- Appendix: Plot Summary of Shi no toge
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author