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Author Levy, Indra A., author.

Title Sirens of the Western shore : the westernesque femme fatale, translation, and vernacular style in modern Japanese literature / Indra Levy.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
Contents Translation as origin and the originality of translation -- Meiji schoolgirls in and as language -- Portrait of the naturalist as a young exote -- Literary desire and the exotic language of love : from "Shoshijin" to Jokyoshi -- Haunting the laboratory of vernacular style : the sirens of "Shojôbyô" and Futon -- Setting the stage for translation -- Gender drag, culture drag, and female interiority.
Summary A study that introduces an archetype in modern Japanese literature, this work pinpoints the birth of the Westernesque femme fatale in the vernacularist movement of the late 1880s, tracks her development in naturalist fiction of the mid-1900s, and finds her catapulted to centre stage in the early 1910s.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Japanese literature -- 1868- -- History and criticism.
Japanese literature.
Chronological Term 1868-
Subject Japanese literature -- Western influences.
Japanese literature -- Western influences.
Chronological Term Since 1868
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Levy, Indra A. Sirens of the Western shore. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231137869 9780231137867 (DLC) 2006017785 (OCoLC)70129043
ISBN 9780231510745 (electronic book)
0231510748 (electronic book)
0231137869
9780231137867
Music No. EB00639487 Recorded Books