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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795425703321

Autore

Harada Kazue

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

90-04-46884-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 pages)

Collana

Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Disciplina

895.636099287

Soggetti

Sex in literature

Human reproduction in literature

Literary criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--