The woman's hand : gender and theory in Japanese women's writing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Rutgers Conference on Japanese Women Writers
Other Authors:	Schalow, Paul Gordon, Walker, Janet A., 1942-
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1996]
Subjects:	Japanese fiction > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses. Japanese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Congresses. Japanese literature > Heian period, 794-1185 > History and criticism > Congresses. Gender identity in literature > Congresses. Sex role in literature > Congresses. Feminism and literature > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

Special address : without beginning, without end / Oba Minako
The Tosa Diary : in the interstices of gender and criticism / Lynne K. Miyake
Origins of the concept of "Women's Literature" / Joan E. Ericson
Body in contemporary Japanese women's fiction / Sharalyn Orbaugh
Translation and reproduction in Enchi Fumiko's " A Bond for two lifetimes - Gleanings" / Doris G. Bargen
Quest for jouissance in Takahashi Takako's texts / Maryellen Toman Mori
In pursuit of the Yamamba : the question of female resistance / Meera Viswanathan
Hayashi Kyoko and the gender of ground zero / John Whittier Treat
Becoming or (un)becoming : the female destiny reconsidered in Oba Minako's narratives / Michiko Niikuni Wilson
In search of a lost paradise : the wandering woman in Hayashi Fumiko's Drifting Clouds / Noriko Mizuta
Text Versus Commentary : struggles over the cultural meanings of "Woman" / Chieko M. Ariga
Connaissance delicieuse, or the Science of jealousy : Tsushima Yuko's "The chrysanthemum Beetle" / Livia Monnet
Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi / Nina Cornyetz.