EALC 200: Approaches to the Study of East Asian Cultures (HC/BMC) Spring 2017: Japan

Bulk of the the work consists of short entries on individual authors, genres, and literary developments. Also includes a chronology starting on page xxv, and a bibliography starting on page 149 which lists suggested works on broader aspects of Japanese literature as well as works on individual authors. The introduction to the bibliography provides a good survey of the important writings on modern Japanese literature.

Has entries on fifty-eight women writers. The chronology starting on page 501 provides a listing of when the writers lived. Covers writers up to the early 1990s.

Provides biographies as well as lists of western language translations of 104 women novelists who published works between 1900 and 1993.

Entries on individual authors. Both the author's works and secondary works about the author are annotated. The "Glossary and Suggestions for Further Reading" starting on page 537 is interesting in that it leads the reader to books on topics that might be covered in the author's fictional works such as 'elder care' and 'women's suffrage'.

This comprehensive reference work covers all four forms of traditional Japanese theatre: no, kyogen, bunraku, and kabuki.