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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.
Jan 1, 2001 · According to the Anthology’s editor “Kōno Taeko (1926–2015) was one of the most important Japanese women writers of the second half of the twentieth century. She established a reputation for herself as an acerbic essayist, a playwright and a literary critic.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Taeko Kono (1926-2015) was born in Tokyo, Japan. She is one of the most well known Japanese woman writers and has won many of Japan’s top literary prizes (the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, and the Noma).
