Subject Area: Writing-Diary/Memoir
Mori, Maryellen Toman2024 1-4955-1315-7 598 pages
In this introduction to the early world of Tamura Toshiko, my overview of the author’s life and my interpretive comments on many of her literary works give particular attention to the vital role of sensual pleasure in fostering a woman’s resilience. In Toshiko’s personal and literary microcosms, pleasure is invested with protective and healing properties.
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Aronson, Alex
1991 0-88946-385-9 135 pages
Studies the diary as a metaphor of the continuous flow of time in a person's life, evoking the writer's often capricious and fragmentary recall of the past, and his daily attempt to transform memory into images that are appended as if they existed outside or beyond time. Contends that diaries supply the evidence that there is a need to engrave phrases and dates to "protect them from oblivion."
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