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How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire



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"Women Adrift is a rigorous, sophisticated, and nuanced investigation that refuses to reduce the complexity of the issues it raises to platitudes and fixed assumptions about the nature of colonialism in general, women’s writing under the gaze of empire in particular." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California


"Noriko J. Horiguchi’s study, by focusing on the material and discursive bodies of these famous women writers, not only sheds new light on the complexity and uses of kokutai ideology, but also pushes us to rethink our assessment of their bodies of works." —Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill



Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion

1. Japan as a Body
2. The Universal Womb
3. Resistance and Conformity
4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko
5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko
6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi Fumiko

Conclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of Empire

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 21/12/2011
      ISBN13: 9780816669776, 978-0816669776
      ISBN10: 0816669775
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How women figured in the expansion of the national body of the Japanese empire



      Trade Review

      "Women Adrift is a rigorous, sophisticated, and nuanced investigation that refuses to reduce the complexity of the issues it raises to platitudes and fixed assumptions about the nature of colonialism in general, women’s writing under the gaze of empire in particular." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California


      "Noriko J. Horiguchi’s study, by focusing on the material and discursive bodies of these famous women writers, not only sheds new light on the complexity and uses of kokutai ideology, but also pushes us to rethink our assessment of their bodies of works." —Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion

      1. Japan as a Body
      2. The Universal Womb
      3. Resistance and Conformity
      4. Behind the Guns: Yosano Akiko
      5. Self-Imposed Exile: Tamura Toshiko
      6. Wandering on the Periphery: Hayashi Fumiko

      Conclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of Empire

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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