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...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2016]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780824853556 |