Envisioning Women Writers
No CoverA scholarly dissertation on female authorship, publishing, and translation cultures in early 20th-century Japan.
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A scholarly dissertation on female authorship, publishing, and translation cultures in early 20th-century Japan.
This dissertation examines the discourses surrounding women and writing in the rapidly commercialized publishing industry and media in early 20th-century Japan. While Japan has a rich history of women's writing from the 10th century onwards, it was in the 1910s that the journalistic category of "women's literature" (joryû bungaku) emerged within the dominant literary mode of Naturalism, as the field of literature itself achieved a respectable cultural status after the end of the Russo-Japanese W...
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Academic discussion of decadence and femme fatale literary imagery
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Central focus on feminism, New Woman, and gendered literary politics
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