Contents
Preface.............................................................ix
1 SLAMMING THE DOOR, SCARING THE NEIGHBORS...........................1
2 HE STOLE HER SKY..................................................55
3 SHINING STARS, LONELY NIGHTS.....................................103
4 MODERN GIRL......................................................165
5 THE ODOR OF PICKLED RADISHES.....................................199
Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Note...........................251
Chapter One
SLAMMING THE DOOR,
SCARING THE NEIGHBORS
JAPANESE LITERATURE HAS MORE than its share of male authors who
have ruined themselves with drink, courted breakdowns, or chosen to
end their sufferings through suicide. While ordinary readers may puzzle
over the reasons for these destructive tendencies, to a contingent of
Japanese men the explanation is obvious: the women are to blame.
There is the case of the eminent writer whose suicide looks suspicious.
Some maintain that ... read full excerpt from: Modern Girls, Shining Stars, and the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women ebook
