LEADER 03917nam 22005895 450 001 9910154285403321 005 20190828104755.0 010 $a0-8248-7296-7 010 $a0-8248-5992-8 010 $a0-8248-5990-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824859923 035 $a(CKB)4340000000020935 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669050 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660051 035 $a(OCoLC)967067534 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54134 035 $a(DE-B1597)483834 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824859923 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000020935 100 $a20190828d2016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWriting Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan /$fAmanda C. Seaman 210 1$aHonolulu : $cUniversity of Hawaii Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-8248-5988-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCHAPTER ONE. Write Your Mother -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Hey, You, Get Out of My Womb! -- $tCHAPTER THREE. And Baby Makes One -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Manual Labor -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Riding the Wave -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Em-bawdy- ing Pregnancy -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aWriting Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan is a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. While earlier authors such as Yosano Akiko had addressed the pain and emotional complexities of childbearing in their poetry and prose, the topic quickly moved into the literary shadows when motherhood became enshrined as a duty to state and sovereign in the 1930s and '40s. This reproductive imperative endured after World War II, spurred by a need to create a new generation of citizens and consumers for a new, peacetime nation. It was only in the 1960s, in the context of a flowering of feminist thought and activism, that more critical and nuanced appraisals of pregnancy and motherhood began to appear.In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman analyzes the literary manifestations of this new critical approach, in the process introducing readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors (including horror and fantasy, short stories, novels, memoir, and manga), the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein. This "pregnancy literature," Seaman argues, serves as an important yet rarely considered forum for exploring and debating not only the particular experiences of the pregnant mother-to-be, but the broader concerns of Japanese women about their bodies, their families, their life choices, and the meaning of motherhood for individuals and for Japanese society. It will be of interest to scholars of modern Japanese literature and women's history, as well as those concerned with gender studies, feminism, and popular culture in Japan and beyond. 606 $aChildbirth in literature 606 $aPregnancy in literature 606 $aJapanese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJapanese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChildbirth in literature. 615 0$aPregnancy in literature. 615 0$aJapanese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJapanese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.609/354 676 $a895.6093540904 700 $aSeaman$b Amanda C., $0741414 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154285403321 996 $aWriting Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan$92889269 997 $aUNINA