Tanabe Seiko, Feminism, and the Making of a Love Novel

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https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2021.191

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Author Biography

Luciana Sanga, Northwestern University

Luciana Sanga is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Northwestern University. She holds a PhD in Japanese Literature from Stanford University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Studies, Review of Japanese Culture and Society, and Proceedings for the Association of Japanese Literary Studies. She is currently completing her book manuscript "The Production of Genre: Love Novels in Contemporary Japanese Literature."

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