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Author: Tomoko Aoyama (University of Queensland, Australia) ,
Barbara Hartley (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9780415673051
ISBN 10: 0415673054
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 10 May 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""This collection strikes a delicate balance between the feminist desire to re-evaluate the girl’s subversive reading/writing practices and a careful attentiveness to their historical and textual ambiguities. The innovative significance of this volume also lies in the way it opens up the scope of Japanese girl studies by placing the girl texts within the context not only of Japanese studies but also of feminist literary criticism and cultural studies. Reading such diverse manifestations of girl-ness – even Dostoevsky’s anti-hero finds himself reincarnated as a girl-writer in contemporary Tokyo – reinforces and enhances the idea that the attribute “girl” is not restricted to its biological sense but can be assumed by any individual responsive to the paradoxical desire within her/himself to defy and at the same time to be desired by society. The reader of this volume, regardless of gender, age or nationality, is invited to add another layer of reading and participate in this intricate and irresistible practice of girl reading girl."" - Mayako Murai, Kanagawa University; Asian Studies Review; March 2013 - volume 37, issue 1. ""This is a valuable resource... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates."" - L. I. Winston, CHOICE (July 2010)"
This collection strikes a delicate balance between the feminist desire to re-evaluate the girl's subversive reading/writing practices and a careful attentiveness to their historical and textual ambiguities. The innovative significance of this volume also lies in the way it opens up the scope of Japanese girl studies by placing the girl texts within the context not only of Japanese studies but also of feminist literary criticism and cultural studies. Reading such diverse manifestations of girl-ness - even Dostoevsky's anti-hero finds himself reincarnated as a girl-writer in contemporary Tokyo - reinforces and enhances the idea that the attribute girl is not restricted to its biological sense but can be assumed by any individual responsive to the paradoxical desire within her/himself to defy and at the same time to be desired by society. The reader of this volume, regardless of gender, age or nationality, is invited to add another layer of reading and participate in this intricate and irresistible practice of girl reading girl. - Mayako Murai, Kanagawa University; Asian Studies Review; March 2013 - volume 37, issue 1. This is a valuable resource... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. - L. I. Winston, CHOICE (July 2010)
Author Information
Tomoko Aoyama is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. Barbara Hartley is a Lecturer in the School of Asian Languages and Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
