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The Woman's Hand - Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing (Hardcover)
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The Woman's Hand - Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing (Hardcover)
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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.
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