Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women : Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu /

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This book explores the world of thirteenth-century Japan through the life of a prolific noblewoman known as Nun Abutsu (1225-1283). Abutsu crossed gender and genre barriers by writing the first career guide for Japanese noblewomen, the first female-authored poetry treatise, and the first poetic trav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laffin, Christina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Abutsu-ni > 1222-1283
Abutsu-ni, > approximately 1209-1283.
Abutsu-ni, > approximately 1209-1283 > Criticism and interpretation.
Schriftstellerin
Literaturproduktion > Motiv
Weiblicher Adel > Motiv
Japanisch
Frauenliteratur
Politischer Wandel > Motiv
Women authors, Japanese.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Women authors, Japanese > 1185-1600.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Nun Abutsu and women's writing in medieval Japan
  • A woman's guide to career success : Nun Abutsu and court life in The nursemaid's letter
  • Lover and nun : embodying the heroine in Fitful slumbers
  • Women and the way : Nun Abutsu as poet and Genji scholar
  • Politics and poetry : Diary of the sixteenth night moon as a literary appeal.

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