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Name
  
Norma Field

Role
  
Author


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Awards
  
American Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
In the realm of a dying em, From my grandmother's bedside, The Splendor of Longing i

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Norma M. Field is an author and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago. She has taught Premodern Japanese Poetry and Prose, Premodern Japanese Language, and Gender Studies as relating to Japanese women.

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Her areas of expertise include: Japan, Literature: Modern Japanese, Feminism, Translation, Humanities.

Field was born in Tokyo, Japan shortly after the end of World War II to an American serviceman father and his Japanese wife. She was raised in Tokyo attending school in the Washington Heights District. At age 10, she transferred to the American School in Japan, where she stayed until she graduated from high school. After graduation, she moved to America, and received a BA from Pitzer College in European Studies.

Field has a master's degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988.

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Selected publications

  • The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (1987)
  • In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End (1993)
  • From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo (1997)
  • References

    Norma Field Wikipedia


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