Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu Stephen Snyder. The question of how much this misogynistic vision of sexual politics enters into Kafû's fiction is a complex one. Isoda Kòichi argues that Kafû's lifelong fascination with and ...

This groundbreaking book explores the history and the cultural context of family claims to power in the Bamako kafu, or state (located in contemporary Mali in West Africa), primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

" At once sensitive and witty, elegant and gritty, these stories provide a nuanced outsider's view of the United States and a perfect entrance into modern Japanese literature.

... Kafû the Scribbler by the issue of how to “read” Kafû's wartime diary, Danchòtei nichijò, given the revisions and editorial emendations that Kafû made after the war. (In a “Postscript on the Diary,” he exonerates Kafû of aspersions he ...