The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s WritingPaul Gordon Schalow, Janet A. Walker Stanford University Press, 1996 - 511 pages 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
Introduction | 1 |
Without Beginning Without End | 19 |
In the Interstices of Gender and Criticism | 41 |
The Origins of the Concept of Womens Literature | 74 |
The Body in Contemporary Japanese Womens Fiction | 119 |
Translation and Reproduction in Enchi Fumikos | 165 |
The Quest for Jouissance in Takahashi Takakos Texts | 205 |
The Question | 239 |
Hayashi Kyōko and the Gender of Ground Zero | 262 |
The Female Destiny | 293 |
The Wandering Woman | 329 |
Struggles over | 352 |
Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi | 425 |
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Page 423 - Man Woman Always the same metaphor: we follow it, it carries us, beneath all its figures, wherever discourse is organized. If we read or speak, the same thread or double braid is leading us throughout literature, philosophy, criticism, centuries of representation and reflection.
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