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by Amanda C. Seaman

  • ISBN: 0824827368
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Amanda C. Seaman
  • Subcategory: History & Criticism
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (February 28, 2004)
  • Pages: 208 pages
  • FB2 size: 1408 kb
  • EPUB size: 1218 kb
  • Rating: 4.2
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This work examines the boom in Japanese women's detective fiction and the ways in which five contemporary authors critically engage with a variety of social issues and concerns including consumerism and the crisis of identity and discrimination and harassment in the workplace.

Amanda Seaman received her BA in East Asian Studies and Psychology from Wellesley College. After a year in Toyama Japan on the JET Program, she spent three years working for Fujisankei Communications International, doing advertising and product development for their Nintendo games division.

Published by: University of Hawai'i Press. eISBN: 978-0-8248-6166-7.

Bodies of evidence : women, society, and detective fiction in contemporary Japan more. Satake ruthlessly murders Kuniko, extorts insurance money from Yayoi, and sets Yoshie& house on fire, killing her mother and grandson

Bodies of evidence : women, society, and detective fiction in contemporary Japan more. Publication Date: 2001. Satake ruthlessly murders Kuniko, extorts insurance money from Yayoi, and sets Yoshie& house on fire, killing her mother and grandson.

The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke’s highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) represents a watershed in the history of Japanese women’s detective fiction. Inspired by Miyabe’s success and the increasing number of Western mysteries in translation, women began writing mysteries of all types, employing the narrative and conceptual resources of the detective genre to depict and critique contemporary Japanese society―and the situation of women in it.

Bodies of Evidence examines this recent boom and the ways in which five contemporary authors (Miyabe, Nonami Asa, Shibata Yoshiki, Kirino Natsuo, and Matsuo Yumi) critically engage with a variety of social issues and concerns: consumerism and the crisis of identity, discrimination and harassment in the workplace, sexual harassment and sexual violence, and motherhood.

Bodies of Evidence moves beyond the borders of detective fiction scholarship by exploring the worlds constructed by these authors in their novels and showing how they intersect with other political, cultural, and economic discourses and with the lived experiences of contemporary Japanese women.



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