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Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan
Author(s): KAWASHIMA TERRY
ISBN10:  0674005163
ISBN13:  9780674005167
Format:  Hardcover
Pub. Date:  9/1/2001
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr

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SummaryTable of Contents
In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be "marginal" or removed from "centers" of power. But why do we see these figures in this way? This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalizing discourse found in these texts. Who is portraying whom as marginal? For what reason? Is the discourse consistent? The author next considers these texts in terms of the predilection of modern scholarship, both Japanese and Western, to label certain figures "marginal." She then poses the question: Is this predilection a helpful tool or does it inscribe modern biases and misconceptions onto these texts?
Introduction 1(2)
The margin, marginality, marginalization: theories and reconsiderations
3(12)
The times of the texts: some broad trends
15(12)
Part I: Women Entertainers
Fragmented Margins: The Asobi and Kugutsu
27(46)
Chinese-style writings: textual echoes and strata of allusions
30(19)
The asobi in setsuwa: two contrasting views
49(24)
Manipulating Margins: Ryojin hisho and Goshirakawa
73(50)
The politics of orality, lineage, and rebirth
76(20)
``Sinful women'': interpreting the asobi
96(27)
Part II: Komachi
Authored Margins: The Prosperity and Decline of Komachi
123(52)
The prosperity and decline of Ono no Komachi
129(23)
The gendered transformation of an author's oeuvre
152(23)
Ghostly Margins: The Death of Komachi
175(44)
The dead woman and the powers of literary production
177(22)
Counter-narratives
199(20)
Part III: Hashihime
Return of the Margins: Polygyny, Longing, Demon
219(70)
Aestheticizing polygyny: the pining wife
233(22)
The other side of polygyny: the jealous demon
255(34)
Epilogue 289(6)
Appendix: Translations of Selected Texts 295(34)
Kanbun writings about the asobi and the kugutsu
295(3)
Kanshi on kugutsu in Honcho mudaishi
298(3)
Setsuwa about asobi
301(5)
Yamato monogatari (section 145)
306(1)
Tamatsukuri Komachishu sosuisho
306(16)
Shuchusho
322(1)
Fukuro zoshi
323(1)
Kankyo no tomo, Part II, Story 3
324(5)
Reference Matter
Bibliography 329(16)
Index 345

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