The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction by Makoto Ueda

The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction

Makoto Ueda with Yasunari Kawabata, Yasushi Inoue, Sara Dillon (Translator), Osamu Dazai, Karen Kaya Shimizu (Translator), Seichō Matsumoto, Wei-ming Chen (Translator), Sakae Tsuboi, Chris Heftel (Translator), Takeshi Kaikō, Maryellen Toman Mori (Translator), Nagai Kafu, Mark A. Harbison (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Beth Cary (Translator), Shōhei Ōka, Agatha Haun (Translator), Natsume Sōseki, Harumi Setouchi, Robert Huey (Translator), Taiko Hirabayashi, Richard Dasher (Translator), Kōbō Abe, Stuart A. Harrington (Translator), Sawako Ariyoshi, Keiko Nakamura (Translator), Hiraiwa Yumie, Patricia Lyons (Translator)

279 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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To Lafcadio Hearn at the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's most priceless objets d'art were not the delicate masterpieces of its fine arts but its women. Today, the women of Japan are viewed with a mixture of old stereotypes and new misconcep...

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