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Traditional Tropes And Familial Incest In Banana Yoshimoto’S Kitchen, Michele Gibney
Traditional Tropes And Familial Incest In Banana Yoshimoto’S Kitchen, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
Kitchen, written in 1983, by Banana Yoshimoto, contains one novella and one short story. The novella is entitled Kitchen and the short story which follows it is called Moonlight Shadow. In Moonlight Shadow, the structure of a Japanese Noh drama enfolds, wherein the ultimate end of the main character is to live on in a semi-incestuous relationship with her dead boyfriend’s brother. In Kitchen, the images that one is assailed by are those of desire coexisting with food, and love contingent on incest. The idea of food as a comfort conflates into that of a woman as comforting.
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Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Sacrifices In The Ming Dynasty, Deborah Sommer
Deborah A. Sommer
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Uchida Tomu And The Missing Links / Materialität Und Existenz: Uchida Tomu Und Die Fehlenden Bindeglieder Des Japanishcen Kinos, Aaron Gerow
Aaron Gerow