Kyoko Iriye Selden

Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Atomic Bomb

Noriko Mizuta Lippit

This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context, and their mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female school literature' totally inadequate to characterize their works. Indeed, they stand at the core of modern Japanese literature as a whole.

Revival: Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (1983)

Taeko Tomioka

Noriko Mizuta

A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka. Taeko deconstructs the discourse of the nuclear family and heterosexuality in gendered Japanese culture. Her stories focus on ordinary people unfettered by introspection or a search for life's ultimate meaning.

Seven Stories

The Funeral of a Giraffe: Seven Stories

Mark Selden

This collection of factual reports, short stories, poems and drawings expresses in a deeply personal voice the devastating effects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Norika Mizuta Lippit

Revised and expanded edition of Noriko Mizuta Lippit and Kyoko Iriye Selden's Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers [1982]

Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Japanese Women Writers

"Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review

Kyoko Iriye Selden

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