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Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity » (New Edition)
Authors: Tomiko Yoda, Rey Chow (Editor), Harry Harootunian (Editor), Masao Miyoshi
ISBN-13: 9780822332374, ISBN-10: 082233237X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Tomiko Yoda
Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and the Program in Literature at Duke University.
Book Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 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 |
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