1st Edition
Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
By Helene Bowen Raddeker
Copyright 1997
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death. Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women's own... Read more
Part 1 Preliminaries; Chapter 1 Treason and treachery, documents and discourse; Chapter 2 The work (structure, logic, method); Part 2 Engagements with death; Chapter 3 Kanno Suga: ‘The unswerving path’; Chapter 4 Kaneko Fumiko: ‘The will to die’; Chapter 5 Commentary: discourse on death and beyond; Chapter 6 Commentary: martyrs, nihilists and other rebel heroes; Part 3 Life-narratives; Chapter 7 Kanno Suga (1902–1911); Chapter 8 Kaneko Fumiko (1922–1926);
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Hélène Bowen Raddeker
