04088nam 2200661 a 450 991046142700332120200520144314.00-8166-7878-2(CKB)2670000000151019(EBL)863823(OCoLC)777565096(SSID)ssj0000613166(PQKBManifestationID)12263588(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613166(PQKBWorkID)10584403(PQKB)11771863(MiAaPQ)EBC863823(Au-PeEL)EBL863823(CaPaEBR)ebr10534332(EXLCZ)99267000000015101920110726d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen adrift[electronic resource] the literature of Japan's imperial body /Noriko J. HoriguchiMinneapolis University Of Minnesota Press20121 online resource (270 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6977-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: ContentsAcknowledgments -- Introduction: Japanese Women and Imperial Expansion1. 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 FumikoConclusion: From Literary to Visual Memory of EmpireNotes -- Bibliography -- Index." Women's bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how women's actions and representations of women's bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan. Discussions of empire building in Japan routinely employ the idea of kokutai--the national body--as a way of conceptualizing Japan as a nation-state. Women Adrift demonstrates how women impacted this notion, and how women's actions affected perceptions of the national body. Horiguchi broadens the debate over Japanese women's agency by focusing on works that move between naichi, the inner territory of the empire of Japan, and gaichi, the outer territory; specifically, she analyzes the boundary-crossing writings of three prominent female authors: Yosana Akiko (1878-1942), Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945), and Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951). In these examples--and in Naruse Mikio's postwar film adaptations of Hayashi's work--Horiguchi reveals how these writers asserted their own agency by transgressing the borders of nation and gender. At the same time, we see how their work, conducted under various colonial conditions, ended up reinforcing Japanese nationalism, racialism, and imperial expansion.In her reappraisal of the paradoxical positions of these women writers, Horiguchi complicates narratives of Japanese empire and of women's role in its expansion"--Provided by publisher.Japanese literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismJapanese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismHuman body in literatureWomen in literatureFascist aestheticsJapanHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyJapanHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, Japanese, in literatureElectronic books.Japanese literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Japanese literatureHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Women in literature.Fascist aestheticsHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryNational characteristics, Japanese, in literature.895.6/0992870904Horiguchi Noriko J946064MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461427003321Women adrift2137205UNINA