The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction by Makoto Ueda

The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories: Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction

Makoto Ueda with Kōbō Abe, Karen Kaya Shimizu (Translator), Wei-ming Chen (Translator), Natsume Sōseki, Stuart A. Harrington (Translator), Hiraiwa Yumie, Sakae Tsuboi, Yasushi Inoue, Taiko Hirabayashi, Mark A. Harbison (Translator), Sara Dillon (Translator), Sawako Ariyoshi, Beth Cary (Translator), Fumiko Enchi, Nagai Kafu, Shōhei Ōka, Robert Huey (Translator), Chris Heftel (Translator), Maryellen Toman Mori (Translator), Patricia Lyons (Translator), Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Dasher (Translator), Harumi Setouchi, Seichō Matsumoto, Takeshi Kaikō, Osamu Dazai, Keiko Nakamura (Translator), Agatha Haun (Translator)

279 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

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To Lafcadio Hearn at the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's most priceless objets d'art were not the delicate masterpieces of its fine arts but its women. Today, the women of Japan are viewed with a mixture of old stereotypes and new misconcep...

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