In this episode, Dr. Deborah Shamoon redraws depictions of the shōjo, or adolescent women, in Japanese cultural production in the Meiji and Taishō period, drawing connections between literature and new understandings of adolescent women’s roles in society. We discuss the emergence of new types of female characters in Meiji literature by Futabatei Shimei, Miyake Kaho, and Mori Ōgai, views of teenage girls as threatening in works by Tayama Katai and Tanizaki Junichirō, and changes in shōjo culture as seen in shōjo manga and the popularity of Misora Hibari in the postwar.
Episode 60 - Dr. Louise Young (Wisconsin)
Episode 59 - Dr. Garrett Washginton (UMass-Amherst)
Episode 58 - Dr. Andrew Gordon (Harvard)
Episode 57 - Dr. Timothy Brook (UBC)
Episode 56 - Dr. Indra Levy (Stanford)
Episode 55 - Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht (Seton Hall)
Episode 54 - Dr. Andrew Bernstein (Lewis & Clark)
Episode 53 - Dr. Maren Ehlers (North Carolina-Charlotte)
Episode 52 - Dr. Frederick Dickinson (Penn)
Episode 51 - Dr. Alice Tseng (Boston)
Episode 50 - Dr. Sidney Lu (Michigan State)
Episode 49 - Dr. Laura Nenzi (Tennessee)
Episode 48 - Dr. Eric Han (William & Mary)
Episode 47 - Dr. Jakobina Arch (Whitman)
Episode 46 - Dr. Nick Kapur (Rutgers-Camden)
Episode 45 - Dr. Sarah Thal (Wisconsin)
Episode 44 - Dr. Takashi Fujitani (Toronto)
Episode 43 - Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU)
Episode 42 - Dr. Timothy David Amos (NUS)
Episode 41 - Dr. Anne Walthall (Irvine)
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