Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire write by Satoko Kakihara. This book was released on 2022-11-28. Women's Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Women’s Performative Writing and Identity Construction in the Japanese Empire, the author examines how writers captured various experiences of living under imperialism in their fiction and nonfiction works. Through an examination of texts by writers producing in different parts of the empire (including the Japanese metropole and the colonies and territories of Taiwan, Korea, and Manchukuo), the book explores how women negotiated the social and personal changes brought about by modernization of the social institutions of education, marriage, family, and labor. Looking at works by writers including young students in Manchukuo, Japanese writer Hani Motoko, Korean writer Chang Tŏk-cho, and Taiwanese writer Yang Ch’ien-Ho, the book sheds light upon how the act and product of writing became a site for women to articulate their hopes and desires while also processing sociopolitical expectations. The author argues that women used their practice of writing to construct their sense of self. The book ultimately shows us how the words we write make us who we are.
Flowers in Contradiction
Flowers in Contradiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flowers in Contradiction write by Satoko Kakihara. This book was released on 2014. Flowers in Contradiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dissertation examines writings by women in the Japanese empire, analyzing their negotiations of gender in the metropole and the colonies and territories of Taiwan, Korea, and China between 1895 and 1945. From the Meiji era, the Japanese government attempted to modernize its subjects through social reforms and the assignation of normative gender roles: men to fight for expansion as masculinized soldiers, women to reproduce and raise future imperial subjects as feminized Good Wives and Wise Mothers. Examining writings that discuss this gendered modernization, this comparative and multiregional project argues that women writers employed the performative of writing both to fit into and to break out of constructed categories (such as "educated", "professional", and "Westernized"), categories that were based on the promise of progress and liberation but that created new power hierarchies. The dissertation thus contributes to the scholarship an intercolonial study on gender in the Japanese empire. The five chapters of this dissertation explore different social institutions related to the construction of modern womanhood over a normalized female life course. Chapter 1 argues that students in the puppet state of Manchukuo constructed, through composition assignments, labels of educated/uneducated, Japanese/non-Japanese within an institution of education that was purported to promote equality. Chapter 2 argues, by examining works by Taiwanese writer Yang Ch'ien-ho and Korean writer Kang Kyŏng-ae, that the establishment of a modern selfhood through labor was impossible under Japanese imperial modernity. Chapter 3 analyzes writings by Japanese educator Hani Motoko to argue that Hani's ideas on modern, liberal marriage reproduced oppressions of women under capitalist social structures, despite encouraging women's self-realization and improvement. Chapter 4 analyzes Japanese- and Korean-language works by Chang Tŏk-cho to argue that they offer women's communities as alternatives to patriarchal kinship. Chapter 5 analyzes works by Xiao Hong and Yosano Akiko to argue that notions of "belonging" are rooted in one's freedom of movement. By extending its frame beyond single national contexts and conceiving the empire as a spatial and temporal continuum, this dissertation connects colonial gender construction with contradictions between idealized and lived womanhoods in East Asia today.
Becoming Modern Women
Becoming Modern Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Modern Women write by Michiko Suzuki. This book was released on 2010. Becoming Modern Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural history of love and female identity in Japan during the 1910s-30s.
Identity, Gender, and Status in Japan
Identity, Gender, and Status in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Identity, Gender, and Status in Japan write by Takie Lebra. This book was released on 2007-06-21. Identity, Gender, and Status in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As one of Japan’s leading post-war anthropologists, the writings of Takie Lebra have had significant impact on Western understanding and appreciation of the structures and workings of Japanese society. In particular, her research into the notions of self and self-other relationships, issues of gender and women and motherhood has provided a new paradigm in the way these issues are now addressed. Similarly, her analysis of the status culture of royalty and the aristocracy in Japan, based on extensive field study, which culminated in her book Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility (1993), has been widely regarded as the most important contribution of its kind to date. This volume brings together twenty-four of the author’s key papers on the three principal areas of her research over the last thirty-five years, and includes a complete Bibliography of her published writings, subdivided into books, articles in journals or as book chapters, and book reviews. The collection is introduced by Takie Lebra herself, in which she first ‘reviews’ selected essays appearing in the volume, along with a consideration of the contemporary controversy surrounding the imperial succession. In conclusion, by way of a personal ‘mini memoir’, she offers what she terms ‘a sentimental reverie on my own self as a “native outsider”’.
Masking Selves, Making Subjects
Masking Selves, Making Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masking Selves, Making Subjects write by Traise Yamamoto. This book was released on 1999-01-06. Masking Selves, Making Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. Through an examination of post-World War II autobiographical writings, fiction, and poetry, Traise Yamamoto argues that these writers have employed the trope of masking—textually and psychologically—as a strategy to create an alternative discursive practice and to protect the self as subject. Yamamoto's range is broad, and her interdisciplinary approach yields richly textured, in-depth readings of a number of genres, including film and travel narrative. Looking at how the West has sexualized, infantilized, and feminized Japanese culture for over a century, she examines contemporary Japanese American women's struggle with this orientalist fantasy. Analyzing the various constraints and possibilities that these writers negotiate in order to articulate their differences, she shows how masking serves as a self-affirming discourse that dynamically interacts with mainstream culture's racial and sexual projections.
