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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan - Hospitable Friendship (Hardcover)
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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan - Hospitable Friendship (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable
Friendship examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship
and intimacy between Victorian female travel writers and Meiji
Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary
Japanese literature hithero untranslated into English it highlights
the open subjectivity and addective relationality of Isabella Bird,
Mary Crawford Fraser, and Marie Stopes in their interactions with
Japanese hosts. Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan
demonstates how travel narratives and literary works about
non-colonial Japan complicate and challenge Oriental stereotypes
and imperial binaries. It traces the shifts in the representation
of Japan in Victorian discourse from obsequious mousme to virile
samurai alongside transitions in the Anglo-Japanese bilateral
relationship and global geopolitical events. Considering the
ethical and political implications of how Victorian women wrote
about their Japanese friends, it examines how female travellers
created counter discourses. It charts the unexplored terrain of
female interracial and cross-cultural friendship and love in
Victorian literature, emphasizing the agency of female travellers
against the scholarly tendency to depoliticize their literary
praxis. It also offers parallel narratives of three Meiji women in
Britain - Tsuda Umeko, Yasui Tetsu, and Yosano Akiko -and
transnational feminist alliance. The book is a celebration of the
political possibility of female friendship and literature, and a
reminder of the ethical responsibility of representing racial and
cultural others.
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