Gender Is Fair Game

Oba Minako (1930- ) began her writing career as an ordinary homemaker in a tiny Alaskan fishing town. She took advantage of her status of being a voyager abroad to explore travel, painting, higher education, and writing. This study uses feminist literary criticism to face the challenge of Minako's complex and gender-oriented texts, looking at her literary, intellectual, and personal concern for women's and men's gendered roles and her revisionist perspective on Japanese literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR