| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) |
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Producing writing subjects : women in the interwar years -- Politics rooted in everyday life : Oku Mumeo's Fires burning brightly (Nobi aka aka to) -- Changing consciousness : Takai Toshio's my own sad history of female textile workers (Watashi no jokō aishi) -- Her mother's voice : Nishi Kiyoko's Reminiscences (Tsuioku) -- Re-presenting the self : Sata Ineko's between the lines of my personal chronology (Nen'pu no gyōkan) -- Resisting authority : Fukunaga Misao's Recollections of a female communist (Aru onna kyōsanshugisha no kaisō) |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Women -- Japan -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- Japan
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
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Autobiography -- Women authors
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Women
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Women and literature
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Schriftstellerin
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Autobiografie
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Geschichte
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Vrouwen.
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Autobiografieën.
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Japans.
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Japan
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Japan
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Loftus, Ronald P
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| ISBN |
9780824864569 |
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0824864565 |
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