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The Field of Cultural Production (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Field of Cultural Production (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely
Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains
Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional
realization of her concept of "loneliness." Her fiction typically
features a woman for whom dreams and fantasies, crime, madness,
sexual deviance, or occult pursuits serve as a temporary release
from her society's definitions of female identity. The combination
of surrealist, feminist, and religious themes in Takahashi's work
makes it unique among that of modern Japanese women writers.The
five individually titled short stories that constitute Lonely Woman
are linked by certain characters, themes, and plot elements. In the
first story, "Lonely Woman," a series of arson incidents in her
neighborhood causes a nihilistic young woman to become fascinated
with the psychology of the person who perpetrated the crimes. Her
fantasies of the euphoric pleasure of setting a fire heighten her
awareness of her own violent tendencies. "The Oracle" portrays a
young widow who becomes convinced, through several disturbing
dreams, that her late husband was unfaithful to her. She devises a
cruel, ritualistic act as a strategy for defusing her sense of
helpless rage. In "Foxfire," a store clerk has a series of
encounters with sly, seductive youngsters and is revitalized by her
discovery of the criminal and sexual impulses that lurk beneath
their innocent facades. In "The Suspended Bridge," a bored
housewife's passion is rekindled when a man with whom she once had
a sadomasochistic relationship reenters her life. "Strange
Affinities" recasts crime, madness, and amour fou as catalysts of a
process of spiritual enlightenment: an old woman searches for an
elusive man who seems to embody the bliss of self-renunciation.
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