Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature 9780824864071

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, &q

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Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
9780824864071

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Tomoko Aoyama

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Read Food in Modern Japanese Literature?
Chapter One. Food in the Diary
Chapter Two. Down-to-Earth Eating and Writing (1)
Chapter Three. Down-to-Earth Eating and Writing (2)
Chapter Four. Cannibalism in Modern Japanese Literature
Chapter Five. The Gastronomic Novel
Chapter Six. Food and Gender in Contemporary Women’s Literature
Conclusion: Confessions of an Obsessive Textual Food Eater
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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