2020
DOI: 10.5195/jll.2020.97
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Ogawa Yōko and the Horrific Femininities of Daily Life

Abstract: In Ogawa Yōko’s (b. 1962) writing from the late 1980’s and 1990’s, female narrators often revel in the fantastical beauty of youthful masculinities, while they themselves cannot escape the disgusting disorder of feminized domestic spaces. First, I read death and violence in kitchens depicted in the story collection Revenge (1998) to show how Ogawa rewrites this space associated with the housewife and her duties as one of horrific possibilities overturning idealized images of domesticity. Next, building on earl… Show more

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“…Grace En-Yi Ting deals with Ogawa's representations of femininity in relation to extreme emotions and irrationality and analyzes how Ogawa's stories critique, reject, or play with such issues, but Ting does not define emotions as such and does not deal with the question of how emotions are narratively inscribed in the texts. 6 Furthermore, in my opinion, those "extreme emotions" and the irrationality mentioned by Ting are not always genderbiased, and neither can they be attributed to femininity in Ogawa's works, since there are also male protagonists who are described with such characteristics. Eve Zimmerman briefly mentions the terms "affect", "emotion" and "affective energy" in discussing the space of melancholia in Mīna no kōshin ミーナの行進 (Mīna's march, 2006) with reference to Jonathan Flatley's theories on emotions and affects.…”
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confidence: 78%
“…Grace En-Yi Ting deals with Ogawa's representations of femininity in relation to extreme emotions and irrationality and analyzes how Ogawa's stories critique, reject, or play with such issues, but Ting does not define emotions as such and does not deal with the question of how emotions are narratively inscribed in the texts. 6 Furthermore, in my opinion, those "extreme emotions" and the irrationality mentioned by Ting are not always genderbiased, and neither can they be attributed to femininity in Ogawa's works, since there are also male protagonists who are described with such characteristics. Eve Zimmerman briefly mentions the terms "affect", "emotion" and "affective energy" in discussing the space of melancholia in Mīna no kōshin ミーナの行進 (Mīna's march, 2006) with reference to Jonathan Flatley's theories on emotions and affects.…”
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confidence: 78%
“…3 In 1990 her story Pregnancy Diary, which has also been translated into English, received Akutagawa Prize and since 2007 she is a member of that award's committee. Ogawa wrote it while she was taking care of her infant son as a housewife and became the first woman in the postwar period to win that award in her twenties [16].…”
Section: Ogawa Yōko -Isolation and Unauthenticated Objectsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ogawa gives in her writing considerable attention to issues of femininity, societal gender expectations and female sexuality. This has led to scholars such as Grace En-Yi Ting [16] or Sasaki Akiko [17] to focus on these characteristics of her texts but despite the experience of women being an important topic for Ogawa and prevalence of themes like pregnancy Ogawa cannot be clearly called a feminist writer. She herself refuses the label 4 and unlike authors like Shōno Yoriko, her writing has close to no political aspirations.…”
Section: Ogawa Yōko -Isolation and Unauthenticated Objectsmentioning
confidence: 99%