Presentation Title
Ovulation as a Mode of Thinking and Letting Go: Tawada Yoko's The Unfertilized Egg
Location
RCC 202
Start Date
12-10-2013 11:00 AM
End Date
12-10-2013 12:30 PM
Abstract
In Tawada Yoko’s narratives the involuntary bodily functions of ovulating and gestating are experimented with as ways of understanding thinking as an embodied and sensual process. Ovulating, in particular, is invoked as a thought process in which ideas gather a certain momentum, or sensations almost become conscious as thought, and then cease to be altogether. My paper will explore Tawada’s intentional use of a specifically female-gendered involuntary bodily process as a potentially non-gendered mode of thinking and feeling.
Ovulation as a Mode of Thinking and Letting Go: Tawada Yoko's The Unfertilized Egg
RCC 202
In Tawada Yoko’s narratives the involuntary bodily functions of ovulating and gestating are experimented with as ways of understanding thinking as an embodied and sensual process. Ovulating, in particular, is invoked as a thought process in which ideas gather a certain momentum, or sensations almost become conscious as thought, and then cease to be altogether. My paper will explore Tawada’s intentional use of a specifically female-gendered involuntary bodily process as a potentially non-gendered mode of thinking and feeling.
Comments
Presentation is included in Panel 16: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Literature