An edition of Fictions of femininity (1999)

Fictions of femininity

literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs

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An edition of Fictions of femininity (1999)

Fictions of femininity

literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs

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The history of Japanese memoir literature began over a thousand years ago, its greatest practitioners being women of the "middle ranks" whose literary talents won many of them positions as ladies-in-waiting at the Heian imperial court. As female writers they both inhabited and helped create a discursive world obsessed with the arts of concealment and self-display, the perils and possibilities - erotic, political, and literary - of real and metaphorical peepholes.

As memoirists they were virtuosos in the exacting art of feminine self-representation. Taken together, the essays in this book underscore the diversity of the Heian memoirists' responses to their roles as women and as writers in one of the most unusual epochs of Japanese history.

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328

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Fictions of femininity: literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's memoirs
1999, Stanford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-322) and index.

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Stanford, Calif

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Dewey Decimal Class
895.6/8140309
Library of Congress
PL741.2 .S26 1999, PL741.2.S26 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 328 p. ;
Number of pages
328

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Open Library
OL377874M
Internet Archive
fictionsoffemini0000sarr
ISBN 10
0804733783
LCCN
98039910
OCLC/WorldCat
39727744
Library Thing
512625
Goodreads
282015

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