| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 404 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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Asia perspectives |
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Asia perspectives.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Meiji women writers / Rebecca L. Copeland -- Meiji women's poetry / Laurel Rasplica Rodd -- Selected poems / by Meiji women -- Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901) / Rebecca L. Copeland and Aiko Okamoto MacPhail -- Daughters in boxes -- Miyake Kaho (1868-1944) / Rebecca L. Copeland -- Warbler in the grove -- Higuchi Iciyō (1872-1896) / Kyōko Ōmori -- Higuchi Iciyō's journal entries -- Tazawa Inabune (1874-1896) / Melek Ortabasi -- The Temple of Godai -- Kitada Usurai (1876-1900) / Melek Ortabasi -- Hiding the gray -- Wretched sights -- Shimizu Shikin (1868-1933) / Rebecca Jennison -- How determined are today's women students? -- The broken ring -- School for emigrés -- Hasegawa Shigure (1879-1941) / Carole Cavanaugh -- Wavering traces -- Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985) / Eleanor J. Hogan -- Persimmon sweets -- Mizuno Senko (1888-1919) / Barbara Hartley -- For more than forty days -- Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945) / Edward Fowler -- Lifeblood -- The vow |
| Summary |
The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. Selected readings include writings by the public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the dramatist Hasegawa Shigure, the short-fiction writer Shimizu Shikin, the political writer Tamura Toshiko, and the novelists Miyake Kaho, Higuchi Ichiyo, Tazawa Inabune, Kitada Usurai, N |
| Notes |
Translated from the Japanese |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-389) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Japanese literature -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Translations into English -- Women authors
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Copeland, Rebecca L., 1956-
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Ortabasi, Melek.
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| ISBN |
9780231510660 |
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0231510667 |
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