Boldly challenging traditional understandings of Heian literature,
Tomiko Yoda reveals the connections between gender, nationalism,
and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations
of classic Heian texts. Renowned for the wealth and sophistication
of women's writing, the literature of the Heian period (794-1192)
has long been considered central to the Japanese literary canon and
Japanese national identity. Yoda historicizes claims about the
inherent femininity of this literature by revisiting key moments in
the history of Japanese literary scholarship from the eighteenth
century to the present. She argues that by foregrounding women's
voices in Heian literature, the discipline has repeatedly enacted
the problematic modernizing gesture in which the "feminine" is
recognized, canceled, and then contained within a national
framework articulated in masculine terms.
Moving back and forth between a critique of modern discourses on
Heian literature and close analyses of the Heian texts themselves,
Yoda sheds light on some of the most persistent interpretive models
underwriting Japanese literary studies, particularly the modern
paradigm of a masculine national subject. She proposes new
directions for disciplinary critique and suggests that historicized
understandings of premodern texts offer significant insights into
contemporary feminist theories of subjectivity and agency.
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