"Words I Couldn't Stop" is Joyce Shintani's first poetry collection, featuring her early and middle works. The poems explore themes of otherness, religion, love, and nature, blending delicacy with strength. They vary in form from haiku to longer verses, balancing lightness with profound messages.
This book explores Hélène Cixous' concept of lecture féminine, applying it to musicology and multimedia. It presents a method that intertwines body and intellect, challenges textual validity, and promotes diverse interpretations. Aimed at experts and students, it connects feminist theory with poststructuralism and key philosophical figures.
Poems
The collection "Becomings" is the second of two collections of Joyce Shintani's poetry. Written between 1983-2021, Shintani's central concerns are on full display: questions concerning identity, spirituality, creativity, and art. The collection reflects a lifetime of self-examination and experimentation. In these poems and fragments, Shintani explores how the self (and our multiple 'selves') creates and shapes itself through art, while also being shaped and created by the world. This is a collection as much about self-exploration and self-expression as it is about the material conditions of Los Angeles, Stuttgart, and Paris, the locations where these poems were written and that influenced Shintani as writer.
und andere Kurzgeschichten
Dieser Band vereint sämtliche bisher auf Deutsch erschienenen Kurzgeschichten von Joyce Shintani, darunter auch die Kurzgeschichten, die sie unter ihrem Pseudonym Vanessa Araya veröffentlicht hat. Für "Papyri und Tatami" erhielt Joyce Shintani 2018 den Schwäbischen Literaturpreis."Shintani hat eine Geschichte verfasst, deren rätselhaft Atmosphäre den Leser in ihren Bann zieht. Mit minimalistischen erzählerischen Mitteln gelingt es ihr, den Gegensatz zwischen westlicher und östlicher Kultur in einprägsamen Bildern sichtbar zu machen", so die Jurorin Ulrike Längle in ihrer Laudatio zur Preisverleihung.