Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Self-Apocalypse: Tales of the Tokkōtai 7 2 Dreams and the Alphabet of Trauma 51 3 Out of the Abyss: The “Sick Wife Stories” 99 4 Island Dreams: Yaponesia and the Cultural Unconscious 160 Afterword 215 Appendix: Plot Summary of Shi no toge 223 Notes 235 Bibliography 273 Index 281 vii ...