Cultural Representations of the Girl in Japan: Girl readiing girl Book

List of figures xiii

List of contributors xiv

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction Tomoko Aoyama Barbara Hartley 1

The Great March Forward of All Girls Who Support the Eternal Girl 15

Poem Yagawa Sumiko

Translated Bill Fryer

Part 1 Genealogy of the reading girl 17

1 The genealogy of hirahira: liminality and the girl Honda Masuko Omoko Aoyama Barbara Hartley 19

2 The genealogy of the "girl" critic reading girl Tomoko Aoyama 38

3 The climate of the girl in Yoshimoto Banana: ???!?!? Kawasaki Kenko Tomoko Aoyama Barbara Hartley 50

Part 2 Reading against social constraint 65

4 Volatility and diversity: Shiraki Shizu and the reading girl Barbara Hartley 67

5 Ribbons undone: the sh?jo story debates in prewar Japan Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase 80

6 Japanese girls' comfort reading of Anne of Green Gables Akiko Uchiyama 92

Part 3 The erotic reading girl 105

7 Matsuura Rieko's The Reverse Version: the theme of "girl-addressing-girl" and male homosexual fantasies Kazumi Nagaike 107

8 Murakami Haruki's sh?jo: Kasahara Mei Maria Flutsch 119

9 A girl with her writing machine Rio Otomo 130

Part 4 Reading the performing and visual girl 143

Transcending gender in pictorial representations of Miyazawa Kenji's "Marivuron and the girl" Helen Kilpatrick 145

11 From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: translation and the transfiguration of gender and sexuality in sh?jo manga James Welker 160

12 Girls reading Harry Potter, girls writing desire: amateur manga and shdjo reading practices Sharalyn Orbaugh 174

13 Reading Lolita in Japan Vera Mackie 187

Bibliography 202

Index 217