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‘Shojo culture has excelled in its potential for creating emptiness as Banana Yoshimoto is influenced by Shojo/Manga culture in her writing would it be fair to say that the content of her novella ‘Kitchen’ is also empty. Discuss
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'Shojo culture has excelled in its potential for creating emptiness as Banana Yoshimoto is influenced by Shojo/Manga culture in her writing would it be fair to say that the content of her novella 'Kitchen' is also empty. Discuss. Shojo culture is becoming more popular, and in Yoshimoto's work this is evident. She incorporates many ideas from Shojo culture in her novella Kitchen - a girl's refusal to grow up; her rebellion against sexual maturity. Shojo represents pleasure and play. Even though there are traces of innocence and sexual immaturity in her novella, I don't think it is fair to go so far as to say that her work is 'empty'. Yoshimoto is very much influenced by Shojo culture in her novella Kitchen. However, it wouldn't be fair to say that the content of her novella 'Kitchen' is also empty. There are some aspects of Shojo culture that are empty but there are...
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