Women adrift [electronic resource] : the literature of Japan's imperial body / Noriko J. Horiguchi.
2012
PL725 .H67 2012eb
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Title
Women adrift [electronic resource] : the literature of Japan's imperial body / Noriko J. Horiguchi.
Author
Horiguchi, Noriko J.
ISBN
9780816669776 (hardback)
9780816669783 (pb)
9780816678785 (e-book)
9780816669783 (pb)
9780816678785 (e-book)
Imprint
Minneapolis : University Of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 242 p.
Call Number
PL725 .H67 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.6/0992870904
Summary
" Women's bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how women's actions and representations of women's bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan. Discussions of empire building in Japan routinely employ the idea of kokutai--the national body--as a way of conceptualizing Japan as a nation-state. Women Adrift demonstrates how women impacted this notion, and how women's actions affected perceptions of the national body. Horiguchi broadens the debate over Japanese women's agency by focusing on works that move between naichi, the inner territory of the empire of Japan, and gaichi, the outer territory; specifically, she analyzes the boundary-crossing writings of three prominent female authors: Yosana Akiko (1878-1942), Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945), and Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951). In these examples--and in Naruse Mikio's postwar film adaptations of Hayashi's work--Horiguchi reveals how these writers asserted their own agency by transgressing the borders of nation and gender. At the same time, we see how their work, conducted under various colonial conditions, ended up reinforcing Japanese nationalism, racialism, and imperial expansion.In her reappraisal of the paradoxical positions of these women writers, Horiguchi complicates narratives of Japanese empire and of women's role in its expansion"-- Provided by publisher.
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Machine generated contents note: ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion1. Japan as a Body
2. The Universal Womb
3. Resistance and Conformity
4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko
5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko
6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi FumikoConclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of EmpireNotes
Bibliography
Index.
Introduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion1. Japan as a Body
2. The Universal Womb
3. Resistance and Conformity
4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko
5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko
6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi FumikoConclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of EmpireNotes
Bibliography
Index.