Yoda / Chow / Harootunian Gender and National Literature

Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8587-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoda, Tomiko

Chow, Rey

Harootunian, Harry

Miyoshi, Masao

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and African Languages and the Program in Literature at Duke University.