This is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope--the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon--in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905-86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946-92).
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This is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope--the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon--in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905-86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946-92).
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