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Places / Jakuchō Setouchi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824890254
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.635
LOC classification:
  • PL861.E8 B3713 2022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator’s Preface -- 1 Mt. Nanzan -- 2 Tatara River -- 3 Nakazu Harbor -- 4 Mt. Bizan -- 5 Nagoya Station -- 6 Aburanokōji Sanjō -- 7 Mitaka Shimorenjaku -- 8 Tōnosawa -- 9 Nishi Ogikubo -- 10 Nogata -- 11 Nerima Takamatsu-chō -- 12 Mejiro Sekiguchidai-machi -- 13 Nakano Honchō Dōri -- 14 Hongō Ikizaka -- Translator’s Notes
Summary: “Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuchō. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along the way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress, lover, role model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn, she has reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving reflection. Basho (Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby, enjoins readers to accompany the author as she travels again over the familiar terrain of her life story, journeying through the places where she once lived, loved, suffered, and learned.” —from the Foreword by Rebecca L. CopelandIn this scintillating work of autobiographical fiction, Setouchi Jakuchō recalls with almost photographic clarity scenes from her past: growing up in the Tokushima countryside in the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman, and in Tokyo as a young student experiencing the heady freedom of college life; escaping to Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged marriage and an ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo, with its lively community of artists and writers, to establish herself as a novelist. Throughout, Jakuchō is propelled by a burning desire to write and make a living as one. Her memories, remarkably sharp and clear, also provide a fascinating picture of everyday life in Japan in the years surrounding World War II.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator’s Preface -- 1 Mt. Nanzan -- 2 Tatara River -- 3 Nakazu Harbor -- 4 Mt. Bizan -- 5 Nagoya Station -- 6 Aburanokōji Sanjō -- 7 Mitaka Shimorenjaku -- 8 Tōnosawa -- 9 Nishi Ogikubo -- 10 Nogata -- 11 Nerima Takamatsu-chō -- 12 Mejiro Sekiguchidai-machi -- 13 Nakano Honchō Dōri -- 14 Hongō Ikizaka -- Translator’s Notes

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“Few writers have led as storied a life as Setouchi Jakuchō. Writer, translator, feminist, peace activist, Buddhist nun . . . even this list cannot contain the impressive sweep of her career. Along the way she has also been daughter, wife, mother, mistress, lover, role model, and femme fatale. Through each twist and turn, she has reacted with both feisty verve and self-reproving reflection. Basho (Places), superbly translated here by Liza Dalby, enjoins readers to accompany the author as she travels again over the familiar terrain of her life story, journeying through the places where she once lived, loved, suffered, and learned.” —from the Foreword by Rebecca L. CopelandIn this scintillating work of autobiographical fiction, Setouchi Jakuchō recalls with almost photographic clarity scenes from her past: growing up in the Tokushima countryside in the 1920s, the daughter of a craftsman, and in Tokyo as a young student experiencing the heady freedom of college life; escaping to Kyoto at the end of a disastrous arranged marriage and an ill-starred love affair before returning to Tokyo, with its lively community of artists and writers, to establish herself as a novelist. Throughout, Jakuchō is propelled by a burning desire to write and make a living as one. Her memories, remarkably sharp and clear, also provide a fascinating picture of everyday life in Japan in the years surrounding World War II.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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