Prostitutes, hostesses, and actresses at the edge of the Japanese empire : fragmenting history / Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamasaki, Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitutes--Japan--History.

Prostitutes.

Prostitutes in literature.

Prostitutes in motion pictures.

Women entertainers--Japan--History.

Women entertainers.

Sex role--Japan--History.

Sex role.

Women--Japan--Social conditions.

Women.

History.

Japan.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 107 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki is an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University. She teaches at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, as well as the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Lehigh.

Contents:

Introduction : Dwelling on/in history

A skeptic more than a participant : Nakajima Atsushi writes (against) the Empire

I perform, therefore I am not : Ri Kōran's building of the Empire

Hayashi Kyōko : a Japanese girl and a Japanese prostitute at the edge of the Empire

Yi Yang-ji : the body as a battlefield

I resist, therefore I am : Mother in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée

Coda : Listening to silence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Yamasaki, Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya. Prostitutes, hostesses, and actresses at the edge of the Japanese empire.

ISBN:

9781003126515

1003126510

9781000398427

1000398420

9781000398458

1000398455

Publisher Number:

40030723772

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.