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Boldly challenging traditional understandings of Heian literature, Tomiko Yoda reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts. Renowned for the wealth and sophistication of women's writing, the literature of the Heian period (794-1192) has long been considered central to the Japanese literary canon and Japanese national identity. Yoda historicizes claims about the inherent femininity of this literature by revisiting key moments in the history of Japanese literary scholarship from the eighteenth century to the present. She argues that by foregrounding women's voices in Heian literature, the discipline has repeatedly enacted the problematic modernizing gesture in which the "feminine" is recognized, canceled, and then contained within a national framework articulated in masculine terms.Moving back and forth between a critique of modern discourses on Heian literature and close analyses of the Heian texts themselves, Yoda sheds light on some of the most persistent interpretive models underwriting Japanese literary studies, particularly the modern paradigm of a masculine national subject. She proposes new directions for disciplinary critique and suggests that historicized understandings of premodern texts offer significant insights into contemporary feminist theories of subjectivity and agency.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

22 mars 2004

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822385875

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Asia Japanese

TO M I KO฀YO DA

■GENDER฀AND฀NATIONAL฀LITERATURE

H E I A N฀T E X T S฀I N฀T H E฀C O N S T RU C T I O N S฀O F฀J A PA N E S E฀M O D E R N

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A S I A - P A C I F I C :

P O L I T I C S ,

C U L T U R E ,

A N D

S O C I E T Y

S E R I E S E D I T O R S : R E Y C H O W , H . D .

H A R T O O N U N I A N , & M A S A O M I Y O S H I

G E N D E R

A N D

L I T E R A T U R E

N A T I O N A L

H E I A N T E X T S

I N T H E C O N S T R U C T I O N S O F

J A P A N E S E M O D E R N I T Y

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T O M Y P A R E N T S ,

Emi and Shōtarō Yoda

C O N T E N T S

Acknowledgments, ix; Note to the Reader, xv; Introduction, ;

1.The Feminization of Heian and Eighteenth-Century Poetics, ;

2.Gender and the Nationalization of Literature, ;3.Women

and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing, ;4.Politics and

Poetics inThe Tale of Genji, ;5.Tokieda’s Imperial Subject

and the Textual Turn in Heian Literary Studies, ;6.Gender

and Heian Narrative Form, ; Epilogue: Heian Texts and Femi-

nist Subjects, ; Notes, ;

Bibliography, ; Index, 

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

Academic research often seems like a solitary endeavor. As I recall the help I received from so many people in the course of completing this book, however, I am compelled to think otherwise. The book now ap-pears less a product of the time I spent alone at libraries or sitting in front of a computer monitor than an outgrowth of interactions and conversations I had with teachers, friends, colleagues, and students. The shortcomings of this book demonstrate my limitations, but they would have been far more extensive and grave if not for the input I received from others too numerous to be fully acknowledged here. The research for this book began during my graduate studies at Stanford University. My gratitude ﬁrst goes to Tom Hare, my adviser, for his superb guidance, intellectual passion, and friendship, which have sustained me through my graduate years and beyond, and to Susan Matisoﬀ for instructions and advice that have proved invalu-able. I would also like to express my appreciation to many other teach-ers and friends I met at Stanford, who contributed greatly to my intel-lectual growth and are present in many fond memories of my time in Palo Alto, including Amy Borovoy, Thierry Delmarcelle, Marion Lee,

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