Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

Author Yuki Masami: Yuki Masami is a Professor in the Foreign Language Institute at Kanazawa University, Japan. Translated by Michael Berman: Michael Berman is a graduate student in the Department of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Translator's Introduction Preface to the English edition Introduction PART I: A DISCUSSION WITH ISHIMURE MICHIKO 1. Interview with Ishimure Michiko: What have people eaten? 2. Analysis: Literary resistance to toxic discourse: Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow and post-Minamata literature PART II: A DISCUSSION WITH TAGUCHI RANDY 3. Interview with Taguchi Randy: Approaching the relational world of eating 4. Adoration and resistance: A literary practice revolving around food and contamination PART III: A DISCUSSION WITH MORISAKI KAZUE 5. Interview with Morisaki Kazue: The logic of eating together 6. Analysis: A diasporic intervention into modernity: A world of eating together PART IV: A DISCUSSION WITH NASHIKI KAHO 7. Interview with Nashiki Kaho: Foodscape on the boundaries 8. Analysis: A world of food and working with one's hands: Hybridity of a magic table