Bodies of Evidence
Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19178493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda C Seaman (0000-0001-8996-5869, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 206 |
| Publication date | 2004-02-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Bodies of Evidence (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780824861667 |
| OpenAlex | W564533147 |
| ISBN | 9780824861667 |
| Open Library | OL29357682M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Consumerism · Detective fiction · Harassment · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Detective and mystery stories · Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism · History and criticism · Japanese Detective and mystery stories · Japanese fiction · Japanese fiction, history and criticism · Women and literature · Women authors
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |