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Sirens of the Western shore : the westernesque femme fatale, translation, and vernacular style in modern Japanese literature / Indra Levy

Author
Levy, Indra A.
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
In English.
Contents
Translation as origin and the originality of translation -- Meiji schoolgirls in and as language -- Portrait of the naturalist as a young exote -- Literary desire and the exotic language of love : from "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi -- Haunting the laboratory of vernacular style : the sirens of "Shojôbyô" and Futon -- Setting the stage for translation -- Gender drag, culture drag, and female interiority.
Summary
A study that introduces an archetype in modern Japanese literature, this work pinpoints the birth of the Westernesque femme fatale in the vernacularist movement of the late 1880s, tracks her development in naturalist fiction of the mid-1900s, and finds her catapulted to centre stage in the early 1910s.
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ISBN
9780231510745 (electronic bk.)
0231510748 (electronic bk.)
0231137869
9780231137867
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
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