with the sociopolitical and epistemological authority of the West. Locating mother-son depictions in narratives from three different periods in Japan's modern history, I show how this trope was sometimes used to represent the maturation of the individual and at others the development of the nation...
Mother Obsession and Womb Imagery in Japanese Literature." The Transactions o f the Asiatic Society o f Japan. Tokyo, 1988.COPEWNDR, ebecca L. 1988 Mother obsession and womb imagery in Japanese literature. T7.an.sactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 4th series, 3: 131-50....
Mother-Tongue in Modern Japanese Literature and Criticism Takayuki Yokota-Murakami 203 Accesses Abstract This chapter treats the Korean-Japanese (zainichi) literati for whom the recovery of the lost language of the motherland (bokoku-go) has had a vital significance. Bokoku-go for them has not...
Get in touch with Mother Nature.Whether it's Hayao Miyazaki's stories of strong women protecting a fragile environment or an indie film crew trying to get accustomed to a spooky forest, you could see the strong ties to Mother Nature. It would be the Shintoist aspect that Lafcadio Hearn exp...
China will soon begin building its first marine resources survey ship and its first mother ship for manned submersibles, according to the State Oceanic Administration. From mud to the stars, China's youth dream of miracles While many young Chinese headed to urban centers for better jobs, Liang ...
of a calf from its mother was usually shorter than that from a non-mother cow, with the difference between the mean distances decreasing sharply until a calf became about 35 days old. The results and literature show that mutual independence of mother and young rapidly develops in the first ...
Co‐existing with the traditional Japanese view of woman as docile, self‐sacrificing, and nurturing is an equally ancient image of woman as powerful shamaness, terrifying demon, sexual enchantress, or suffocating mother. Misogynistic and gynophobic tendencies in traditional and contemporary Japanese ...
In the 1970s, amid anti-war and anti-capitalist feminist movements, the child-killing mother became a popular trope in fiction by Japanese women, says Iida Yuko of Nagoya University. Novelists including Oba Minako and Kono Taeko used disturbing imagery to rebel against a view of women as baby...
Yasuko Togano has lost her husband Akio in an avalanche on Mount Fuji several years ago. Nevertheless, she has decided to stay with her mother-in-law Mieko, and also to finish Akio’s work on ghost possession. This work is her link to the friends Ibuki and Mikame, who both are in ...
Moushumi Chatterjeeand Japanese actress Chingusa Takaku, is set to release April 9.The Japanese Wifetells the tale of Snehamoy (Rahul Bose), a schoolteacher in the interiors of Sundarbans, West Bengal, and Migaya (Chingusa Takaku). They start off as pen pals, fall in love and even .....