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Book SynopsisThis is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope—the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon—in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873–1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905–86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946–92).
Trade Review"Rigorous use of psychoanalytic and feminist theories, coupled with close textual analyses, make Nina Cornyetz's exploration of a literary trope of the "dangerous woman" a stimulating study. . . . Cornyetz's book marks a significant contribution, not only to the field of Japanese literary studies, but also to the psychoanalytic and feminist theories as well." --
The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Izumi Kyoka: 1. Speculum; 2. Leaky archetypes; 3. Perverse maternity: blood from the breast; 4. Michiyuki toward Jouissance; 5. Language and bodies; or, never write words on sitting cushions; Part II. Enchi Fumiko; 6. Vengeance; 7. (Un)reproductivities: maternity and sex; 8. Scripted women bound by blood: polluted flows, sacred flows; 9. Gendered performances: masculinizing Buddhism, feminizing Shinto; 10. Matrix and metramorphosis; Part III. Makagami Kenji: 11. Dangerous men and all that jazz; 12. Tracing origins: landscape and interiority; 13. The body: deformities, nasty blood, and sexual violence; 14. An ambivalent masculinist politics; Afterword; Notes; Index.
