The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing

Rutgers Conference On Japanese Women Writers (1993)

ISBN 10: 0804727236 / ISBN 13: 9780804727235

Edité par Stanford Univ Pr, 1996

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A key academic anthology exploring Japanese women?s literature through feminist and cultural theory. Essays by leading scholars examine gendered authorship, literary tradition, and the complexities of women?s voices in Japanese fiction and poetry. Published by Stanford University Press with support from the Hiromi Arisawa Memorial Fund, this work remains a cornerstone in Japanese literary and gender studies.

N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1762303074231

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• Titre: The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing
• Éditeur: Stanford Univ Pr
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804727236
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804727235
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Assez bon
• Dimensions: 3,175 L x 15,875 H x 23,495 P (centimètres) 3,175 centimètres de largeur par 15,875 centimètres de hauteur par 23,495 centimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 750 grammes

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Synopsis

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.