The Father-Daughter Plot : : Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father / / ed. by Rebecca L. Copeland, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Aoyama, Tomoko,; Arntzen, Sonja,; Brown, Janice,; Copeland, Rebecca L.,; McKeon, Midori,; Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B.,; Mostow, Joshua S.,; Orbaugh, Sharalyn,; Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza,; Sakaki, Atsuko,; Sarra, Edith,; Sherif, Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Copeland, Rebecca L.,; Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present. Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical approach often ignored by scholars. The essays devoted to the literature of the classical period discuss canonical texts in a new light, offering important feminist readings that challenge existing scholarship, while those dedicated to modern writers introduce readers to little-known texts with translations and readings that are engaging and original. Contributors: Tomoko Aoyama, Sonja Arntzen, Janice Brown, Rebecca L. Copeland, Midori McKeon, Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Edith Sarra, Atsuko Sasaki, Ann Sherif.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Of Love and Bondage in the Kagerò Diary Michitsuna's Mother and Her Father -- Chapter 2. Self-Representation and the Patriarchy in the Heian Female Memoirs -- Chapter 3. Towazugatari Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter -- Chapter 4. Mother Tongue and Father Script The Relationship of Sei Shònagon and Murasaki Shikibu to Their Fathers and Chinese Letters -- Chapter 5. De-siring the Center Hayashi Fumiko's Hungry Heroines and the Male Literary Canon -- Chapter 6. A Room Sweet as Honey Father-Daughter Love in Mori Mari -- Chapter 7. Enchi Fumiko Female Sexuality and the Absent Father -- Chapter 8. Needles, Knives, and Pens Uno Chiyo and the Remembered Father -- Chapter 9. A Confucian Utopia Kòda Aya and Kòda Rohan -- Chapter 10. Òba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism -- Chapter 11. Kurahashi Yumiko's Negotiations with the Fathers -- Chapter 12. Ogino Anna's Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX