Women's performative writing and identity construction in the Japanese empire / Satoko Kakihara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kakihara, Satoko, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese literature.

Japanese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Women in literature.

Literature and society--Japan--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Japanese literature--Women authors.

Japan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 149 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

Summary:

"Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire analyzes how texts from Japan and its former colonies and territories represent the changing institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor under imperialism, arguing that women writers constructed their sense of self through their fiction and nonfiction works"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Education

Students and the Language of Establishing Imperial Identities

2. Marriage

Hani Motoko and the Everyday Contradictions of Love and Happiness

3. Family

Chang T6k-cho and the Resistance of Communities of Women

4. Labor

Yang Ch'ien-Ho and the Living of Modern Selfhood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kakihara, Satoko. Women's performative writing and identity construction in the Japanese empire

ISBN:

9781793611604

1793611602

OCLC:

1345517667

Publisher Number:

99992541527