TY - BOOK ID - 102738930 TI - Women adrift : The literature of Japan's imperial body PY - 2011 SN - 9780816669776 9780816669783 0816669775 0816669783 0816678782 PB - Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press DB - UniCat KW - Fascist aesthetics KW - Human body in literature. KW - Japanese literature KW - Literature and society KW - National characteristics, Japanese, in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Literary criticism KW - Social science KW - History KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism KW - Asian KW - Japanese. KW - Women's Studies. KW - Human body in literature KW - Women in literature KW - National characteristics, Japanese, in literature KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Aesthetics KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Social aspects KW - J5500.80 KW - J4176 KW - J4122 KW - Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:102738930 AB - "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."-- ER -