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.

Comments

Presentation is included in Panel 16: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Literature

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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.