Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction

The essays gathered together in this special issue of Japan Forum, “Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction” concern fiction written by contemporary Japanese women, most of whom remain virtually unknown to English-language readers. Despite the welcomed increase in translations into English of contemporary Japanese women’s writings, these writers have yet to find their way into English-language scholarship. One impetus of gathering them together here is thus to introduce them to a new readership. The best-known author within these