Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers

A materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis in which Cornyetz (Japanese, Rutgers U.) looks at the trope of the dangerous woman in the work of Izumi Kyota (1873-1939), Enchi Funiko (1902-86), and Nakagami Kenji (1964-92). She links the spiritually empowered characters with archaisms and magical realms, and to archetypes such as mountain witches, female shamans, and snake-women. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)