SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Kirino Natsuo

»Natsuo Kirino (桐野夏生, Kirino Natsuo) (born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Grosteque

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Grotesque is a 2003 crime novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino, most famous for her novel Out. It was published in English in 2007, translated by Rebecca Copeland. Publisher Knopf censored the American translation, removing a section involving underage male prostitution, as it was considered too taboo for U. S. audiences.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Japanese History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Sexual Assault

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Garnier, Anna-Lena von. Abjekte Weiblichkeit: Transgressive Inszenierungen des Körpers in der Literatur von Kōno Taeko, Kirino Natsuo und Kanehara Hitomi. Berlin 2025.

[Info] Nakanishi, Wendy. »The Novels of Natsuo Kirino: Representations of the Politics of Sexual Violence in Japan.« electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies 13 (2013).

II. Speaker Index

Out

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Out (アウト) is a 1997 Japanese crime novel written by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino and published in English in 2004. The novel won the 51st Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel. It is Kirino's first novel to be published in the English language. (...)
The novel tells the tales of four women, working the graveyard shift at a Japanese bento factory. All four women live hard lives. Masako, the leader of the four women, feels completely alienated from her estranged husband and teenage son. Kuniko, a plump and rather vain girl, has recently been ditched by her boyfriend after the couple were driven into debt, leaving Kuniko to fend off a loan shark. Yoshie is a single mother and reluctant caretaker of her mother-in-law, who was left partly paralyzed after a stroke. Yayoi is a thirty-four-year-old mother of two small boys who she is forced to leave home alone, where they are abused by their drunken, gambling father, Kenji.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Japanese History

III. Topical Index: Cases: Fictional Victims: Masako | Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Garnier, Anna-Lena von. Abjekte Weiblichkeit: Transgressive Inszenierungen des Körpers in der Literatur von Kōno Taeko, Kirino Natsuo und Kanehara Hitomi. Berlin 2025.

[Info] Nakanishi, Wendy. »The Novels of Natsuo Kirino: Representations of the Politics of Sexual Violence in Japan.« electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies 13 (2013).

II. Speaker Index