New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Introduces a new archetype in modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," a distinct lineage of female characters who are ethnically Japanese but evoke the West in their physical appearance, lifestyles, behaviors, and, most importantly, their use of language. Through a careful examination of linguistic and cultural tensions, Indra Levy proves these sirens were hall-marks of an intertextual exoticism that prized the strange beauty of modern Western writing.