Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs by Edith Sarra

Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs

Edith Sarra

344 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The history of Japanese memoir literature began over a thousand years ago, its greatest practitioners being women of the "middle ranks" whose literary talents won many of them positions as ladies-in-waiting at the Heian imperial court. As female w...

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