Excursions in Identity : Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan /

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In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations largely defined a person's place and identity in society. The wayfarers of the time, however, discovered that travel provided the opportunity to escape from the confines of the everyday. Cultured travelers of the seventeenth a...

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Autor principal: Nenzi, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008]
Temas:
Travelers' writings, Japanese > History and criticism.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Everything Flows
  • Part I: Re -creating Spaces
  • Chapter 1 .Maps, Movements, and the Malleable Spaces of Edo Japan
  • Chapter 2. At the Intersection of Travel and Gender
  • Part II: Re-creating Identities
  • Chapter 3. Women on the Road: Identities in Motion
  • Chapter 4. Palimpsests: The Open Road and the Blank Page
  • Part III: Purchasing Re-creation
  • Chapter 5. Print Matters: Popularizing Past and Present
  • Chapter 6. Icons of Escapism
  • Chapter 7. Bodies, Brothels, and Baths: Travel and Physical Re-creation
  • Conclusion Dreaming of Walking near Fuji
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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