TY - GEN T1 - Age of Shōjo : the emergence, evolution, and power of Japanese girls' magazine fiction A1 - Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya, 1968- LA - English PP - Albany PB - State University of New York Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1099255594 AB - "Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have played in the creation and development of the concept of shōjo, the modern cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Cloaked in the pages of girls' magazines, writers could effectively express their desires for freedom from and resistance against oppressive cultural conventions. Shōjo characters' "immature" qualities and social marginality gave authors the power to express their thoughts without worrying about the reaction of authorities. Age of Shōjo details the transformation of Japanese girls' fiction from the 1900s to the 1980s, including the adaptation of Western stories such as Louis May Alcott's Little Women in the Meiji period; the emergence of young female writers in the 1910s and the flourishing girls' fiction era of the 1920s and 1930s; the changes wrought by state interference during the war; and a new era of empowered post-war fiction. The book highlights seminal author Yoshiya Nobuko's dreamy fantasies and Kitagawa Chiyo's social realism, Morita Tama's autobiographical feminism, the contributions of Nobel Prize winning author Kawabata Yasunari, and the humorous modern fiction of Himuro Saeko and Tanabe Seiko. These authors address social topics such as education, same-sex love, feminism, and socialism using girls' perspectives. The age of shōjo, which began at the turn of the twentieth century, continues to nurture new generations of writers and entice audiences beyond age, gender, and nationality"-- OP - 203 CN - PN5407.J8 D65 2019eb SN - 9781438473925 SN - 1438473923 SN - 9781438473918 SN - 1438473915 KW - Children's periodicals, Japanese : History : 20th century. KW - Girls : Books and reading : Japan : History. KW - Japanese literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Japanese literature : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Girls in literature. KW - Filles : Livres et lecture : Japon : Histoire. KW - Littérature japonaise : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Filles dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Asian : General. KW - Children's periodicals, Japanese KW - Girls : Books and reading KW - Girls in literature KW - Japanese literature KW - Japanese literature : Women authors KW - Japan KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -