Gender and National Literature - Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and the Program in Literature at Duke University. Klappentext This work presents a new understanding of the way that classic works of Japanese literature have been received and understood within the framework of national literature studies in Japan. Zusammenfassung Reveals the connections between gender! nationalism! and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts (794-1192). This book argues that by foregrounding women's voices in Heian literature! the discipline has repeatedly enacted the modernizing gesture in which the 'feminine' is recognized! and canceled. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Note to the Reader Introduction 1 1. The Feminization of Heian and Eighteenth-Century Poetics 25 2. Gender and the Nationalization of Literature 41 3. Women and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing 81 4. Politics and Poetics in The Tale of Genji 111 5. Tokieda’s Imperial Subject and the textual Turn in Heian Literary Studies 146 6. Gender and Heian Narrative Form 182 Epilogue: Heian Texts and Feminist Subjects 214 Notes 231 Bibliography 261 Index 269

Product details

• Authors: Tomiko Yoda
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2004
• EAN: 9780822332374
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3237-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures