She Returns to the Floating World
She Returns to the Floating World is a book about transformation that examines two recurring motifs in Japanese folk tales and popular culture: "the woman who disappears" and the "older sister/savior." Many of the poems are persona poems spoken by characters from anim and manga, mythology, and fairy tales, like the story of the kitsune, or fox-woman, whose relationships are followed throughout the book. Gailey's abiding interest in female heroes and tales of transformation, love, and loss bristles to life with a cast of characters including wives who become foxes, sisters who become birds, and robots with souls.
- Author
- Jeannine Hall Gailey
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 129
- Publisher
- Kitsune Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780982740927
- Genres
- poetry, feminism
- Release date
- 2011
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