feminism and literature

Discusses theories of postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism in relation to Japanese literature and analyses the fictional and critical works of four twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japanese writers--Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki, and Karatani K?jin.

Offers biographical information about early twentieth-century author Virginia Woolf along with an analysis of her 1929 feminist essay "A Room of One's Own.".

Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical essays on nearly 300 writers, novelists, and poets whose works support a feminist perspective.

A study of the career of writer Ellen Gilchrist, examining the autobiographical patterns in the lives of Gilchrist and her characters, exploring relationships in her life, looking at the common themes in her writings, and discussing the importance of place in her works.