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Book SynopsisHow 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 ContentsContents
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
