Interlude Tokyo: world theatre capital

Beyond Detective Fiction: A Brief Study of Natsuo Kirino’s Gyokuran (Magnolia)

“…An example would be Hayashi Kyoko's novels and short stories about her childhood experience in Shanghai in the 1930s, such as Mitchell's Lipstick (1980) and Shanghai (1983). 4 For female writers, Shanghai is less a national space than an everyday life space, and less about encountering the racial Other than about rediscovering the self. Kirino's Gyokuran needs to be situated in such a literary tradition.…”