Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature 9780824863432

Hailed by the noted critic Karatani Kojin as a more important and lasting writer than Mishima, Shimao Toshio (1917-1986)

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Self-Apocalypse: Tales of the Tokkōtai
2. Dreams and the Alphabet of Trauma
3. Out of the Abyss: The “Sick Wife Stories”
4 Island Dreams: Yaponesia and the Cultural Unconscious
Afterword
Appendix: Plot Summary of Shi no toge
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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