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Kōno Taeko (河野多惠子, February 24, 1926 – January 29, 2015) was a Japanese writer who was active during the latter half of the 20th century. Kōno belonged to a generation of female Japanese writers who became more well-known in the 1960s and 70s.
Aug 29, 2017 · Kōno Taeko is notorious for her literary masochism, which critics tend to read solely through the narrow lens of psychoanalysis. This article contends that we gain new insights into Kōno's literary life and corpus when historical contexts are also brought to bear.
- Mary A. Knighton
- 2017
Oct 18, 2023 · This chapter looks at three key works by Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka and explores how these women writers reject motherhood and use vivid and often unsettling depictions of children and reproduction to challenge these conventional depictions.
Mar 7, 2019 · Kono Taeko is considered amongst the most influential Japanese women writers that first made an appearance in the 1960s. Her impressive portfolio includes over a dozen works in Japanese, all centered on unexplored aspects of human character—female characters in particular, further pushing the envelope not only on these unexplored aspects but ...
Nov 15, 2018 · The Shocking, Subversive Endings of Taeko Kōno’s Stories. By Gabe Habash. November 15, 2018. Arts & Culture. The fiery, beguiling stories in Taeko Kōno’s collection Toddler Hunting and Other Stories, translated by Lucy North, are vertiginous tightrope walks between two planes of reality.
Sep 30, 2022 · In the postwar 1960s, Kōno Taeko (1926-2015) debuted with shocking stories of alienated modern women whose fantasies of pleasure in sadistic violence, masochism, and pederasty belied their otherwise routine exterior worlds.
Mar 27, 2014 · Toddler-hunting & other stories. by. Kōno, Taeko. Publication date. 1996. Topics. Kōno, Taeko, 1926- -- Translations into English. Publisher. New Directions.
