LEADER 04101nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910790213903321 005 20230801221549.0 010 $a0-8166-7878-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151019 035 $a(EBL)863823 035 $a(OCoLC)777565096 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000613166 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12263588 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613166 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584403 035 $a(PQKB)11771863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC863823 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL863823 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534332 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151019 100 $a20110726d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen adrift$b[electronic resource] $ethe literature of Japan's imperial body /$fNoriko J. Horiguchi 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity Of Minnesota Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-6977-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a" Women's bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how women's actions and representations of women's bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan. Discussions of empire building in Japan routinely employ the idea of kokutai--the national body--as a way of conceptualizing Japan as a nation-state. Women Adrift demonstrates how women impacted this notion, and how women's actions affected perceptions of the national body. Horiguchi broadens the debate over Japanese women's agency by focusing on works that move between naichi, the inner territory of the empire of Japan, and gaichi, the outer territory; specifically, she analyzes the boundary-crossing writings of three prominent female authors: Yosana Akiko (1878-1942), Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945), and Hayashi Fumiko (1904-1951). In these examples--and in Naruse Mikio's postwar film adaptations of Hayashi's work--Horiguchi reveals how these writers asserted their own agency by transgressing the borders of nation and gender. At the same time, we see how their work, conducted under various colonial conditions, ended up reinforcing Japanese nationalism, racialism, and imperial expansion.In her reappraisal of the paradoxical positions of these women writers, Horiguchi complicates narratives of Japanese empire and of women's role in its expansion"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aJapanese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJapanese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aFascist aesthetics$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, Japanese, in literature 615 0$aJapanese literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJapanese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aFascist aesthetics$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, Japanese, in literature. 676 $a895.6/0992870904 686 $aLIT008030$aSOC028000$2bisacsh 700 $aHoriguchi$b Noriko J$01573522 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790213903321 996 $aWomen adrift$93849271 997 $aUNINA