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By Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley

ISBN-10: 113524796X

ISBN-13: 9781135247966

Publish yr note: First released in 2009
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Girl analyzing Girl offers the 1st evaluate of the cultural importance of women and analyzing in smooth and modern Japan with emphasis at the approaches concerned while ladies examine different girls.

The assortment examines the examining practices of actual existence women from differing social backgrounds through the 20th century whereas a few chapters additionally examine how fictional women learn consciousness is given to the various cultural representations of the lady, or shojo, who're the gadgets of the analyzing wants of Japan's genuine existence and fictional ladies.

These representations seem in numerous genres, together with prose fiction, reminiscent of Yoshiya Nobuko's Flower tales and Takemoto Nobara's Kamikaze ladies, and manga, similar to Yoshida Akimi's The Cherry Orchard. This quantity offers the paintings of pioneering ladies students within the box of woman reports together with translations of a ground-breaking essay by means of Honda Masuko on studying ladies and Kawasaki Kenko's reaction to prejudicial masculine opinions of best-selling novelist, Yoshimoto Banana.

Other subject matters variety from the reception of Anne of eco-friendly Gables in Japan to women who write and browse male homoerotic narratives.

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On the other hand, Marie, as the sprite of ribbons, is offered as a living symbol of womanhood. 3 Oscar dressed as a lady Source: Ikeda 1994: 321 of her changing roles and positions, which include wife, mother, and queen, she strives to be honest to her inner voice and wagers everything on love. In other words, she escapes the confines of demands such as reason, sense, duty, and responsibility and devotes herself to passion. In Berubara, totally consumed by her love for Fersen, Marie averts her eyes from the ancien régime on the verge of death and the external reality of the turbulence of French society.

Higuruma means vehicle of the sun. It is a flower that perpetually rotates its face towards the sun for which it longs. How passionate this image is. And how sad. ” This poet fills my hours with wondrous words far removed from the real world sunflower that grows haughtily along a fence, or the green plums waiting to ripen in a corner of the garden. And his fallen leaves are nothing like the dead leaves that cover the school ground in autumn. How tiresome it is to be given ground duty and made to sweep these up.

Faintly a poppy blooms First one and then another … In the soft wheat field In a garden wafted on the breeze The fading sun hovers on the evening horizon The moon trembles in a dream A piano begins to sigh The sound of weeping in the evening In the mist over the wheat field In the bosom wafted on the breeze Faintly a poppy blooms First one and then another … (Kitahara Hakushu-, “Faintly a Poppy Blooms”) The word chain flutters and ripples, calling to the reader as a poetic “play of sounds,” an audible accompaniment to the visible movement of ribbons and frills.

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