The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father 9780824864712

This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese fe

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Of Love and Bondage in the Kagerò Diary Michitsuna’s Mother and Her Father
Chapter 2. Self-Representation and the Patriarchy in the Heian Female Memoirs
Chapter 3. Towazugatari Unruly Tales from a Dutiful Daughter
Chapter 4. Mother Tongue and Father Script The Relationship of Sei Shònagon and Murasaki Shikibu to Their Fathers and Chinese Letters
Chapter 5. De-siring the Center Hayashi Fumiko’s Hungry Heroines and the Male Literary Canon
Chapter 6. A Room Sweet as Honey Father-Daughter Love in Mori Mari
Chapter 7. Enchi Fumiko Female Sexuality and the Absent Father
Chapter 8. Needles, Knives, and Pens Uno Chiyo and the Remembered Father
Chapter 9. A Confucian Utopia Kòda Aya and Kòda Rohan
Chapter 10. Òba Minako and the Paternity of Maternalism
Chapter 11. Kurahashi Yumiko’s Negotiations with the Fathers
Chapter 12. Ogino Anna’s Gargantuan Play in Tales of Peaches
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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