Telling Lives : : Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan / / Ronald P. Loftus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Loftus, Ronald P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824864569; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824864569
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ronald P. Loftus.

In this fascinating collection of translations, Telling Lives looks at the self-writing of five Japanese women who came of age during the decades leading up to World War II. Following an introduction that situates women’s self-writing against the backdrop of Japan during the 1920s and 1930s, Loftus takes up the autobiographies of Oku Mumeo, a leader of the prewar women’s movement, and Takai Toshio, a textile worker who later became a well-known labor activist. Next is the moving story of Nishi Kyoko, whose Reminiscences tells of her life as a young woman who escapes the oppression of her family and establishes her financial independence. Nishi’s narrative precedes a detailed look at the autobiography of Sata Ineko. Sata’s Between the Lines of My Personal Chronology recounts her years as a member of a proletarian arts circle and her struggle to become a writer. The collection ends with the Marxist Fukunaga Misao’s frank and explosive text Memoirs of a Female Communist, which is examined as a manifesto condemning the male chauvinism of the prewar Japanese Communist Party.