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Perfumed sleeves and tangled hair : body, woman, and desire in medieval Japanese narratives /
This study explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as 'body', 'woman', 'gender' and 'agency' - categories that emerged within the context of Western philosophical, religious and feminist debates - to analyse texts that came out of altogether differ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study explores the possibilities and limits of terms such as 'body', 'woman', 'gender' and 'agency' - categories that emerged within the context of Western philosophical, religious and feminist debates - to analyse texts that came out of altogether different temporal and cultural contexts. Through close textual readings of a wide range of classical and medieval Japanese narratives, from well-known works such as the 'Tale of Genji' to popular Buddhist tales, Rajyashree Pandey offers new ways of understanding such terms within the context of medieval Buddhist knowledge. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780824853563 0824853563 9780824853556 0824853555 9780824869052 0824869052 |