1st Edition
Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire Fragmenting History
By Nobuko Yamasaki
Copyright 2021
122 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
Although many feminist critics have articulated women’s active roles as dutiful collaborators for the Japanese empire, male-dominated narratives of empire-building have been largely... Read more
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
Biography
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.
