Woman Critiqued Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing
Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing

"Woman Critiqued will make us wonder why we thought we could grasp modern Japanese literature without concerted attention to what men and women had to say about women's literary production. This remarkable collection is full of surprises, even where predictable arguments are being made. Ca...

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Weitere Verfasser: Aoyama, Tomoko (MitwirkendeR), Bardsley, Jan (MitwirkendeR), Copeland, Rebecca L (MitwirkendeR), Copeland, Rebecca L. (MitwirkendeR, HerausgeberIn), Ericson, Joan E. (MitwirkendeR), Hartley, Barbara (MitwirkendeR), Seaman, Amanda (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2006]
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese
Japanese literature > Women authors > History and criticism
Japanese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
Women authors, Japanese > 20th century
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Zusammenfassung:"Woman Critiqued will make us wonder why we thought we could grasp modern Japanese literature without concerted attention to what men and women had to say about women's literary production. This remarkable collection is full of surprises, even where predictable arguments are being made. Careful translations of writings by the familiar and the obscure, together with thought-provoking introductions and supporting apparatus, make this an indispensable text for the study of modern Japanese culture and society." -Norma M. Field, University of ChicagoOver the past thirty years translations of Japanese women's writing and biographies of women writers have enriched and expanded our understanding of modern Japanese literature.
But how have women writers been received and read in Japan? To appreciate the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that the modern Japanese woman writer has faced, readers must consider the criticisms leveled against her, the expectations and admonitions that have been whispered in her ear, and pay attention to the way she herself has responded. What did it mean to be a woman writer in twentieth-century Japan? How was she defined and how did this definition limit her artistic sphere? Woman Critiqued builds on existing scholarship by offering English-language readers access to some of the more salient critiques that have been directed at women writers, on the one hand, and reactions to these by women writers, on the other. The grouping of the essays into chapters organized by theme clarifies how the discussion in Japan has been framed by certain assumptions and how women have repeatedly tried to intervene by playing with, undercutting, or attempting to exceed these assumptions.
Chapter introductions contextualize the translated essays historically and draw out aspects that warrant particular scrutiny or explication. Although the translators do not cover all aspects or genres identified with women's literary endeavors in the twentieth-century, they provide a significant understanding of the evaluative systems under which Japanese women writers have worked.
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (360 pages)
ISBN:9780824865627
DOI:10.1515/9780824865627

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