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Excursions in identity : travel and the intersection of place, gender, and status in Edo Japan /
"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 sevente...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 and eighteenth centuries wrote travel memoirs to celebrate their profession as belle-lettrists. For women in particular the open road and the blank page of the diary offered a precious opportunity to create personal hierarchies defined less by gender and more by culture and refinement. After the mid-eighteenth century - which saw the popularization of culture and the rise of commercial printing - textbooks, guides, comical fiction, and woodblock prints allowed not a few commoners to acquaint themselves with the historical, lyrical, or artistic pedigree of Japan's famous sites. By identifying themselves with famous literary and historical icons of the past, some among these erudite commoners saw an opportunity to rewrite their lives and re-create their identities in the pages of their travel diaries."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441656933 1441656936 9780824862435 0824862430 9780824869199 0824869192 |