Masking Selves, Making Subjects Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body

Name: Masking Selves, Making Subjects Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body
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ISBN: 9780520210349

ISBN-10: 0520210344

ISBN-13: 9780520210349

Edition: 1999

Authors: Traise Yamamoto

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This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. Through an examination of post-World War II autobiographical writings, fiction, and poetry, Traise Yamamoto argues that these writers have employed the trope of masking--textually and psychologically--as a strategy to create an alternative discursive practice and to protect the self as subject. Yamamoto's range is broad, and her interdisciplinary approach yields richly textured, in-depth readings of a number of genres,…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 329
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Terms


Introduction



"As natural as the partnership of sun and moon": Western Masculinity, Japanese Women and the Feminization of Japan



In/Visible Difference: Japanese American Female Subjectivity



"That other, private self": Masking in Nisei Women's Autobiography



Mothers, Daughters and the Trope of Maternal Absence in Japanese American Women's Fiction



Embodied Language: The Poetics of Mitsuye Yamada, Janice Mirikitani and Kimiko Hahn


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index