Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire

Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire analyzes how texts from Japan and its former colonies and territories represent the changing institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor under imperialism, arguing that women writers constructed their sense of self through their fiction and nonfiction works.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chapter One: Education-Students and the Language of Establishing Imperial Identities
Chapter Two: Marriage-Hani Motoko and the Everyday Contradictions of Love and Happiness
Chapter Three: Family-Chang T¿k-cho and the Resistance of Communities of Women
Chapter Four: Labor-Yang Ch'ien-Ho and the Living of Modern Selfhood
Conclusion. Womanhood Between Theory and Practice
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Satoko Kakihara

Product details

• Authors: Satoko Kakihara
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2022
• EAN: 9781793611604
• ISBN: 978-1-7936-1160-4
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 435 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literature: history & criticism