Mad old Japanese woman writes back from an attic of her own

要旨

While the subject of the shōjo may have finally attracted attention in literary, socio-cultural and anthropological studies in recent decades, old women have remained more or less outside the realm, or at best at the very periphery, of modern Japanese literary and cultural interest—except in regard to the theme of yamanba. However, as exemplified in the literature I have described above, there are many other themes as well as narrative devices and strategies that celebrate the subjectivity of old women.

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