Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island nation have been widely disseminated in North America, most of us cannot imagine what everyday life is like in Japan. Tomoko Mitani’s work addresses this gap with honest responses to the male-dominated society of Japan in a down-to-earth style that looks inward, with stories that are at once intriguing and amusing. Translator Yukari F. Meldrum finds the fine balance in translation between domestication and foreignization, letting a new vantage point emerge. This collection of short stories and a novella will interest scholars and students of Translation Studies, Japanese Studies, and Women’s Studies, as well all of those who are interested in this genre.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 895.6/36
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Includes short stories and a novella Translation of: Wasurenai warai mo namida mo Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780888647504 0888645449
- LCCN
- PL873.I83
- LCCN Item number
- A2 2013eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxiii, 205 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00910377 (OCoLC)870652437 (CaOOCEL)447095
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Translator's Introduction 8
- Dosanko Oku-San's Silly Stories 26
- An incident of "You must say it!" 27
- Tomoko's Story of Stairs 33
- Mad Cow Trip 39
- Men Who Don't Laugh 45
- Who Is This Bride? 51
- We Hear Him but Don't See Him… 57
- What's This Pretty Insect? 61
- The Sign of J 69
- A Lesson Learned from 2 Curtain Signs 73
- Sandal Steaks 79
- Tomoko's Ropes Course Experience 85
- Squid Stories 93
- "Oh!" on the Slide 101
- An Oracle 109
- Wara and Puppy 115
- Toki and Tomoko's Guam Trip 119
- The Deity of Small Change 129
- Dosanko Man's Horse Story 137
- Aching Memories 148
- Rin-sand and Hosuke-kun 150
- Ritchan 154
- Tatchan and Tadao-nisan 160
- I'm Sorry... 164
- Yoko 174
- 1 176
- 2 179
- 3 186
- 4 193
- 5 198
- 6 202
- 7 206
- 8 209
- 9 214
- 10 220
- 11 223
- 12 227
- About the Author and Translator 231
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 232
