The father-daughter plot : Japanese literary women and the law of the father / edited by Rebecca L. Copeland and Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Rebecca L., 1956-

Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--Women authors.

Fathers and daughters in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Japanese literary women and the law of the father

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]

Summary:

This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience, Its contributors, representing a new generation of scholars of Japanese literature, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824821726

0824824385

OCLC:

46240342