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The Woman’s Hand : Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing / ed. by Paul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (536 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This volume has a dual purpose. As a study of Japanese literature, it aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women’s writing and to point to directions for future research and inquiry. As a study of women’s writing, it presents cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. The essays demonstrate various critical approaches to the tradition of Japanese women’s writing—from a consideration of theoretical issues of gendered writing in classical and modern literature to a consideration of the themes and styles of a number of important contemporary writers. Feminist literary critics have generally defined women’s discursive practice in terms of four major gender-related contexts: literary-historical, biological, experiential, and cultural. Accordingly, the thirteen essays in the volume are divided into four parts. Part I locates women writers within Japanese literary history; Part II shows ways in which modern women writers have “written the body” in Japan; Part III gives examples of tropes and genres used to write about female experience; and Part IV depicts how gender intersects with other social and cultural contexts in Japanese women’s writing.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Special Address: Without Beginning, Without End
- 2 The Tosa Diary: In the Interstices of Gender and Criticism
- 3 The Origins of the Concept of "Women's Literature"
- Part II Narrating the Body
- 4 The Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Fiction
- 5 Translation and Reproduction in Enchi Fumiko' s "A Bond for Two Lifetimes- Gleanings"
- 6 The Quest for Jouissance in Takahashi Takaka's Texts
- Part III Defining the Female Voice
- 7 In Pursuit of the Yamamba: The Question of Female Resistance
- 8 Hayashi Kyokō and the Gender of Ground Zero
- 9 Becoming, or (Un)Becoming: The Female Destiny Reconsidered in Oba Minako' s Narratives
- Part IV Locating 'Woman' in Culture
- 10 In Search of a Lost Paradise: The Wandering Woman in Hayashi Fumiko' s Drifting Clouds
- 11 Text Versus Commentary: Struggles over the Cultural Meanings of "Woman"
- 12 Connaissance delicieuse, or the Science of Jealousy: Tsushima Yuko' s "The Chrysanthemum Beetle"
- 13 Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi
- Reference Matter
- Selected Bibliography of Japanese Women's Writing
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-1620-7
- OCLC:
- 1294426489
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