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Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Amanda C. Seaman
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Description for Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Writing 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, ... Read more
Writing 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824859886
SKU
V9780824859886
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About Amanda C. Seaman
Amanda C. Seaman is associate professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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