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American Cuerpos, Devan Schwartz
American Cuerpos, Devan Schwartz
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On election night 2008, a child is conceived by two Barack Obama campaign staffers--Daniel from Seattle, Anza from Honduras. American Cuerpos is a novel about the body and the body politic, about what it means to give birth through the eyes of both mother and father.
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu And His Female Narrators, Jamie Walden Cox
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu And His Female Narrators, Jamie Walden Cox
Dissertations and Theses
Dazai Osamu (born Tsushima Shûji) was a post-WWII writer who wrote a number of works using a female narrator. This thesis research focused on the reasons as to why Dazai may have written using female narratives, taking into consideration the time period and social milieu in which he was writing, as well as his own personal history with women. In addition, the history of male authors utilizing female narratives was explored, as well as the ideas of gender in the Japanese arts. Dazai works were also compared with Tankizaki Junichirô's to see how the roles of women in their works …