TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Copeland, Rebecca L.
AU  - Ortabasi, Melek
TI  - The Modern Murasaki: : Writing by Women of Meiji Japan 
SN  - 9780231137751
AV  - PL782.E1 M63  
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Japanese literature
KW  -  Translations into English
KW  - Women authors
KW  -  Meiji period, 1868-1912
N2  - The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. Selected readings include writings by the public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction writer Shimizu Shikin, the political writer Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, Nogami Yaeko, and Mizuno Senko. The volume also includes a thorough introduction to each reading, an extensive index listing historical, social, and literary concepts, and a comprehensive guide to further research

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