About the Author

Sharalyn Orbaugh, Ph.D. (1989), University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her publications address issues of corporality and visuality in the fiction and other narrative forms of modern Japan.

Reviews

"Offering a brilliant hybrid of cultural and political history, international film and literary theory, and literary analysis, Orbaugh (Univ. of British Columbia) looks at Japanese literature written during the American Occupation (1945-52) and traces the drastic and instantaneous changes in national identity presented to Japan in the aftermath of WW II."
B.M. McNeal, Choice, 2007