Love Upon the Chopping Board
- Paperback
175 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2000
Summary
Marou and Claire met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years in age, by their cultural origins and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these vicissitudes. Autobiography, duography, love story, cross-cultural reflections and lesbian history, Love Upon the Chopping Board explores the personal and political dimension of lesbianism in Japan and Australia.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781875559824 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1875559825 |
| Author: | Maree Claire, Izumo Marou |
| Publisher: | Spinifex Press |
| Imprint: | Spinifex Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 175 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Maree Claire
Born Japan 1951, Marou Izumo became involved in Japan’s first lesbian- feminist group in 1977. A member of the all-women’s theatre group Aoi Tori from 1979-1985 she published Manaita no ue no Koi (forthcoming in English as Love Upon the Chopping Board) in 1993. Her current writings include a regular column ‘Marou’s Queer Report’ in Out Japan, and a forthcoming collection of cinema essays.Born Western Australia 1968, Claire Maree now resides in Tokyo. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Australia and Common Lives/Lesbian Lives. Translation work includes fiction and non-fiction by writers such as Marou Izumo, Yumi Nihongi and Judith Butler
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