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"Dangerous Women, Deadly Words" is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope the dangerous woman in the works of three twentieth-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905-86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946-92). Linked to archaisms and magical realms, the trope of the dangerous, spiritually empowered woman culls from and commingles archetypes from throughout the Japanese canon, including mountain witches, female shamans, and snake-women. In radical opposition to the conventional interpretation of the trope as a repository for transhistorical notions of female essence and Japaneseness, the author reads the dangerous woman as connected in complex ways with twentieth-century Japanese epistemological upheavals: the negotiation of modern phallic subjectivity, modernization of a homosocial economy, the radically changed status of women, reified maternity, compulsory heterosexuality, and the function of literature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dangerous Women, Deadly Words
• Subtitle: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers
• Author: Nina Cornyetz
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 316
• EAN: 9780804732123
• ISBN: 0804732124
• ID: 04716754
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 235 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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