Sexuality, maternity, and (re)productive futures : : women's speculative fiction in contemporary Japan / / Kazue Harada.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
• VerfasserIn: Harada, Kazue,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)

"Contemporary Japanese female speculative fiction writers of novels and manga employ the perspectives of aliens, cyborgs, and bioengineered entities to critique the social realities of women, particularly with respect to reproduction, which they also re-imagine in radical ways. Harada examines the various meanings of (re)production in light of feminist and queer studies and offers close readings of works by novelists Murata Sayaka, Ōhara Mariko, Ueda Sayuri and manga artists Hagio Moto and Shirai Yumiko. Scholarship of SF in Japanese studies has primarily focused on male authors, but this book shows not only how women writers have created a space in SF and speculative fiction but how their work can be seen as a response to particular social norms and government policies"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Imaginaries beyond X/Y : the desire for biological diversity and the (re)productive burden -- Playing with (re)productive process and timen : cyborg gender panic and simulacra of the daughter-mother continuum -- The re-engineered heterosexual family and engineered sexless (re)productive kinships -- Defamiliarizing wombs and imagining new surrogacy in the colonial state -- Queer family and queer futurity : no future for humanity?