The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2001

The Father-Daughter Plot

Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father

Edited by: Rebecca L. Copeland and Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824864712

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Of Love and Bondage in the Kagerò Diary Michitsuna’s Mother and Her Father Sonja Arntzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Self-Representation and the Patriarchy in the Heian Female Memoirs Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3. Towazugatari Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter Edith Sarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 4. Mother Tongue and Father Script The Relationship of Sei Shònagon and Murasaki Shikibu to Their Fathers and Chinese Letters Joshua S. Mostow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 5. De-siring the Center Hayashi Fumiko’s Hungry Heroines and the Male Literary Canon Janice Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 6. A Room Sweet as Honey Father-Daughter Love in Mori Mari Tomoko Aoyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 7. Enchi Fumiko Female Sexuality and the Absent Father Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Chapter 8. Needles, Knives, and Pens Uno Chiyo and the Remembered Father Rebecca L. Copeland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Chapter 9. A Confucian Utopia Kòda Aya and Kòda Rohan Ann Sherif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Chapter 10. Òba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism Sharalyn Orbaugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 11. Kurahashi Yumiko’s Negotiations with the Fathers Atsuko Sakaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
Chapter 12. Ogino Anna’s Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches Midori McKeon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 396

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Published: July 31, 2001
ISBN: 9780824864712