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Women's performative writing and identity construction in the Japanese empire
Title
Women's performative writing and identity construction in the Japanese empire / Satoko Kakihara.
ISBN
9781793611604
1793611602
9781793611611
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Physical Description
xi, 149 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire analyzes how texts from Japan and its former colonies and territories represent the changing institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor under imperialism, arguing that women writers constructed their sense of self through their fiction and nonfiction works"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Kakihara, Satoko. Women's performative writing and identity construction in the Japanese empire Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 06, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Writing the the greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere
Education: students and the language of establishing imperial identities
Marriage: Hani Matoko and the everyday contradictions of love and happiness
Family: Chang To̳k-cho and the resistance of communities of women
Labor: Yang Ch'ien-Ho and the living of modern selfhood
Conclusion: Womanhood between theory and practice.
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