Masami Yuki

Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers: An Ecocritical Journey around the Hearth of Modernity - Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment Masami Yuki

Marc Notes: Translated from the Japanese.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho. Table of Contents: Translator's IntroductionPreface to the English edition IntroductionPART I: A DISCUSSION WITH ISHIMURE MICHIKO1. Interview with Ishimure Michiko: What have people eaten?2. Analysis: Literary resistance to toxic discourse: Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow and post-Minamata literaturePART II: A DISCUSSION WITH TAGUCHI RANDY3. Interview with Taguchi Randy: Approaching the relational world of eating4. Adoration and resistance: A literary practice revolving around food and contaminationPART III: A DISCUSSION WITH MORISAKI KAZUE5. Interview with Morisaki Kazue: The logic of eating together6. Analysis: A diasporic intervention into modernity: A world of eating together PART IV: A DISCUSSION WITH NASHIKI KAHO7. Interview with Nashiki Kaho: Foodscape on the boundaries8. Analysis: A world of food and working with one's hands: Hybridity of a magic tableBiographical Note: Yuki Masami is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Kanazawa University, Japan and currently Vice President of ASLE-Japan. She is the author of Mizu no oto no kioku [Remembering the Sound of Water: Essays in Ecocriticism] and editor (with Lisette Gebhardt) of Literature and Art after "Fukushima": Four Approaches and one of the foremost scholars of environmental literature in Japan. Michael Berman is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Contributor Bio:  Berman, Michael Michael Berman is an adjunct professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. He teaches ESOL and Spanish and writes material for both languages. He is the author of the forthcoming ESOL text and video, The Listening System