1st Edition
Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)
This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context, and their mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female school literature' totally inadequate to characterize their works. Indeed, they stand at the core of modern Japanese literature as a whole.
Introduction
Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden
The Family of Koiwai
Miyamoto Yuriko
The Full Moon
Nogami Yaeko
Blind Chinese Soldiers
Hirabayashi Taiko
Narcissus
Hayashi Fumiko
Memory of a Night.
Sata Ineko
Love in Two Lives: The Remnant
Enchi Fumiko
To Stab.
Uno Chiyo
Ants Swarm
Kono Taeko
Facing the Hills They Stand
Tomioka taeko
Congruent Figures
Takahashi Takako
The Smile of a Mountain Witch
Ohba Minako
Yellow Sand
Hayashi Kyoko
Biography
Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden