Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History

ISBN-13: 9780367648381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 122 str.

Nobuko Ishitate Yamasaki

Opis

Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male empire-building.

Spis treści

1. A Skeptic More Than a Participant: Nakajima Atsushi Writes (Against) the Empire  2. I Perform, Therefore I Am Not: Ri Kōran’s Building of the Empire  3. Hayashi Kyōko: A Japanese Girl and a Japanese Prostitute at the Edge of the Empire  4. Yi Yang-ji: The Body As a Battlefield  5. I Resist, Therefore I Am: Mother in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée

O autorze

Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki is an Assistant Professor at Lehigh University. She teaches at the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, as well as the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Lehigh.