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- catalog abstract ""This volume has a dual purpose. As a study of Japanese literature, it aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to point to directions for future research and inquiry. As a study of women's writing, it presents cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. The essays demonstrate various critical approaches to the tradition of Japanese women's writing--from a consideration of theoretical issues of gendered writing in classical and modern literature to a consideration of the themes and styles of a number of important contemporary writers. Feminist literary critics have generally defined women's discursive practice in terms of four major gender-related contexts: literary-historical, biological, experiential, and cultural. Accordingly, the thirteen essays in the volume are divided into four parts. Part I locates women writers within Japanese literary history; Part II shows ways in which modern women writers have "written the body" in Japan; Part III gives examples of tropes and genres used to write about female experience; and Part IV depicts how gender intersects with other social and cultural contexts in Japanese women's writing. -- Publisher's website.".
- catalog contributor b9421806.
- catalog contributor b9421807.
- catalog contributor b9421808.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""This volume has a dual purpose. As a study of Japanese literature, it aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to point to directions for future research and inquiry. As a study of women's writing, it presents cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. The essays demonstrate various critical approaches to the tradition of Japanese women's writing--from a consideration of theoretical issues of gendered writing in classical and modern literature to a consideration of the themes and styles of a number of important contemporary writers. Feminist literary critics have generally defined women's discursive practice in terms of four major gender-related contexts: literary-historical, biological, experiential, and cultural. Accordingly, the thirteen essays in the volume are divided into four parts. Part I locates women writers within Japanese literary history; Part II shows ways in which modern women writers have "written the body" in Japan; Part III gives examples of tropes and genres used to write about female experience; and Part IV depicts how gender intersects with other social and cultural contexts in Japanese women's writing. -- Publisher's website.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Special address : without beginning, without end / Oba Minako -- The Tosa Diary : in the interstices of gender and criticism / Lynne K. Miyake -- Origins of the concept of "Women's Literature" / Joan E. Ericson -- Body in contemporary Japanese women's fiction / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Translation and reproduction in Enchi Fumiko's " A Bond for two lifetimes -- Gleanings" / Doris G. Bargen -- Quest for jouissance in Takahashi Takako's texts / Maryellen Toman Mori -- In pursuit of the Yamamba : the question of female resistance / Meera Viswanathan -- Hayashi Kyoko and the gender of ground zero / John Whittier Treat -- Becoming or (un)becoming : the female destiny reconsidered in Oba Minako's narratives / Michiko Niikuni Wilson -- In search of a lost paradise : the wandering woman in Hayashi Fumiko's Drifting Clouds / Noriko Mizuta -- Text Versus Commentary : struggles over the cultural meanings of "Woman" / Chieko M. Ariga -- Connaissance delicieuse, or the Science of jealousy : Tsushima Yuko's "The chrysanthemum Beetle" / Livia Monnet -- Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi / Nina Cornyetz.".
- catalog extent "xx, 511 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804727228 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804727236 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan".
- catalog subject "895.6/3099287 20".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature Japan Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in literature Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Japanese fiction 20th century History and criticism Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Japanese fiction Women authors History and criticism Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Japanese literature Heian period, 794-1185 History and criticism Congresses.".
- catalog subject "PL725 .W67 1997".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Japan Congresses.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Special address : without beginning, without end / Oba Minako -- The Tosa Diary : in the interstices of gender and criticism / Lynne K. Miyake -- Origins of the concept of "Women's Literature" / Joan E. Ericson -- Body in contemporary Japanese women's fiction / Sharalyn Orbaugh -- Translation and reproduction in Enchi Fumiko's " A Bond for two lifetimes -- Gleanings" / Doris G. Bargen -- Quest for jouissance in Takahashi Takako's texts / Maryellen Toman Mori -- In pursuit of the Yamamba : the question of female resistance / Meera Viswanathan -- Hayashi Kyoko and the gender of ground zero / John Whittier Treat -- Becoming or (un)becoming : the female destiny reconsidered in Oba Minako's narratives / Michiko Niikuni Wilson -- In search of a lost paradise : the wandering woman in Hayashi Fumiko's Drifting Clouds / Noriko Mizuta -- Text Versus Commentary : struggles over the cultural meanings of "Woman" / Chieko M. Ariga -- Connaissance delicieuse, or the Science of jealousy : Tsushima Yuko's "The chrysanthemum Beetle" / Livia Monnet -- Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi / Nina Cornyetz.".
- catalog title "The woman's hand : gender and theory in Japanese women's writing / Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker, editors.".
- catalog type "Conference proceedings. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".