... of the Japanese American writer Ruth L. Ozeki. In Ozeki's work, the world offemale fertility and maternity [Meridians:feminismra, ce,transnationalism2004, vol. 5, no. r, pp. 226-256] ©2004 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 226 cannot be so easily divested from the public complications of"men war[ring...

...Marlo Starr Abstract In Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being , sixteen-year-old Nao faces severe bullying and sexual violence at her new school in Japan. Seeking escape, she experiments with different identities, turning first to the Internet and then later to Zen Buddhist practices...

... to construct identity-formation in transnationally adopted children. When sixteen-year-old Nao, the protagonist in Ruth Ozeki's novel, A Tale for the Time Being, is the victim of terrible bullying at her school in Japan, she embarks on trying out new identities, finally embracing the Internet and Zen Buddhism...

... women's bodies in Chinese nationalist discourse. Shameem Black, in her essay on Japanese American author's Ruth L. Ozeki's MyYearofMeats,examines the issue of the transfiguration of the Asian female body further, arguing that Ozeki "exploits specific tactics of transnational political activism and extends...

... RightssincetheAssassination ofArchbishopRomero.New Haven and London: YaleUniversity Press. Beverley,John. 2004. Testimonio:OnthePoliticsofTruth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Black, Shameem. 2004. "Fertile Cosmofeminism: Ruth L. Ozeki and Transnational Reproduction." Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism5...