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

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) 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 In English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Women in literature. Japanese literature -- 1868- -- History and criticism Japanese literature -- Western influences Japanese literature -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. Japanese literature -- Meiji period. Japanese literature. Japanese literature -- Western influences. Women in literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231510745 0231510748

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