The Literature Network - Coin Locker Babies.

Coin Locker Babies.

Content courtesy of

From: The Nation
Date: 19950529
Author:Brockman, Terra

Sophocles' Greece had its mountaintops; urban America has its dumpsters; contemporary Japan has its coin lockers. Every society, it seems, has its own site of infanticide. In Japan, so rigidly structured that even one's garbage is closely monitored, train station baggage lockers have become convenient and anonymous spots to dump unwanted newborns.

In Coin Locker Babies, Ryu Murakami (no relation, by blood or style, to Haruki Murakami, author of A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance) takes a few-column-inch story that appears all too often in Japanese newspapers and expands ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Other Articles on Sophocles

Sophocles

Plays of Sophocles: Electra (410? B.C.)

Plays of Sophocles: Philoctetes (409 B.C.)

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus At Colonus (401 B.C.)

Our woefully uncultured leaders no longer have any idea what schools should be doing

Plays of Sophocles: Antigone (441? B.C.)

Sophocles; selected fragmentary plays; v.1: Hermione, Polyxene, the Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Plays of Euripides: Electra [413 B.C.]

Plays of Sophocles: Trachiniae (Women Of Trachis) (413? B.C.)

Plays of Sophocles: Critical Commentary

Find More Articles

About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.