Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers An Ecocritical Journey around the Hearth of Modernity

Title:

ISBN:

9781137477231

Personal Author:

Yuki, Masami. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical Description:

XVII, 191 p. online resource.

Series:

Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,

Abstract:

Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho.

Subject Term:

Environmental sciences -- Social aspects.

Oriental literature.

Literature.

Sex.

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Environmental Social Sciences.