Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

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1. The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction

   By Douglas Slaymaker

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

   This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse, the gender constructions of the imagery of the body and...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

   By Haiping Yan

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society

   Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist...

   Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge