During the Heian period of ancient Japan (794 1185 AD), when
Chinese was still the official language of power and politics, even
privileged women of the imperial court were not allowed to learn
Chinese and wrote instead in Japanese, using kana an abbreviated
and vernacular system of written characters. Writing in this
subordinate script, they produced some of the greatest works of
world literature, including Murasaki Shikibu s The Tale of Genji
often considered the first novel and Sei Shonagon s sui generis,
confessional Pillow Book.
This personal essay by the acclaimed Rivka Galchen sets out from
these ancient Japanese women writers in search of the small
throughout the history of literature from Emily Dickinson to Fyodor
Dostoevsky, from Robert Walser to Marianne Moore before returning
to the Land of the Rising Sun and its contemporary boom of young
female Japanese crime fiction writers."
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