The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father

Copeland, Rebecca L. (Editor), and Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0824821726 / ISBN 13: 9780824821722

Edité par University of Hawaii Press 2001, 2001

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Hard cover Fine. No dust jacket as issued. 440 p. Includes Illustrations.

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• Titre: The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father
• Éditeur: University of Hawaii Press 2001
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0824821726
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780824821722
• Reliure: Couverture rigide

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Synopsis

This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present.

Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical approach often ignored by scholars. The essays devoted to the literature of the classical period discuss canonical texts in a new light, offering important feminist readings that challenge existing scholarship, while those dedicated to modern writers introduce readers to little-known texts with translations and readings that are engaging and original.

Contributors: Tomoko Aoyama, Sonja Arntzen, Janice Brown, Rebecca L. Copeland, Midori McKeon, Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Edith Sarra, Atsuko Sasaki, Ann Sherif.