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Girl Reading Girl in Japan by Barbara Hartley (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415673054

ISBN-139780415673051

eBay Product ID (ePID)99539636

Product Key Features

Number of Pages226 Pages

Publication NameGirl Reading Girl in Japan

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Publishing, Children's Studies, Regional Studies, General

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science

AuthorBarbara Hartley

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal028.5/50952

Table Of ContentIntroduction Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley Part 1: Genealogy of the Reading Girl 1. The Genealogy of Hirahira: Liminality and the Girl Honda Masuko 2. The Genealogy of the "Girl" Critic Reading Girl Tomoko Aoyama 3. The Climate of the Girl in Yoshimoto Banana Kawasaki Kenko Part 2: Reading against Social Constraint 4. Volatility and Diversity: Shiraki Shizu and the Reading Girl Barbara Hartley 5. Ribbons Undone: The Shôjo Story Debates in Prewar Japan Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase 6. Japanese Girls' Comfort Reading of Anne of Green Gables, Akiko Uchiyama Part 3: The Erotic Reading Girl 7. Matsuura Rieko's The Reverse Version: The Theme of "Girl-Addressing-Girl" and Male Homosexual Fantasies Kazumi Nagaike 8. Murakami Haruki's Shôjo: Kasahara Mei Maria Flutsch 9. A Girl with Her Writing Machine Rio Otomo Part 4: Reading the Performing and Visual Girl 10. Transcending Gender in Pictorial Representations of Miyazawa Kenji's "Marivuron and the Girl" (Marivuron to Shôjo) Helen Kilpatrick 11. From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translation and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality in Shôjo Manga, James Welker 12. Girls Reading Harry Potter, Girls Writing Desire: Amateur Manga and Shôjo Reading Practices Sharalyn Orbaugh 13. Reading Lolita in Japan Vera Mackie

SynopsisGirl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a number of chapters also consider how fictional girls read attention is given to the diverse cultural representations of the girl, or sh jo , who are the objects of the reading desires of Japan's real life and fictional girls. These representations appear in various genres, including prose fiction, such as Yoshiya Nobuko's Flower Stories and Takemoto Nobara's Kamikaze Girls , and manga, such as Yoshida Akimi's The Cherry Orchard. This volume presents the work of pioneering women scholars in the field of girl studies including translations of a ground-breaking essay by Honda Masuko on reading girls and Kawasaki Kenko's response to prejudicial masculine critiques of best-selling novelist, Yoshimoto Banana. Other topics range from the reception of Anne of Green Gables in Japan to girls who write and read male homoerotic narratives., Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a number of chapters also consider how fictional girls read attention is given to the diverse cultural representations of the girl, or shôjo, who are the objects of the reading desires of Japan's real life and fictional girls. These representations appear in various genres, including prose fiction, such as Yoshiya Nobuko's Flower Stories and Takemoto Nobara's Kamikaze Girls, and manga, such as Yoshida Akimi's The Cherry Orchard. This volume presents the work of pioneering women scholars in the field of girl studies including translations of a ground-breaking essay by Honda Masuko on reading girls and Kawasaki Kenko's response to prejudicial masculine critiques of best-selling novelist, Yoshimoto Banana. Other topics range from the reception of Anne of Green Gables in Japan to girls who write and read male homoerotic narratives., Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a number of chapters also consider how fictional girls read attention is given to the diverse cultural representations of the girl, or shôjo , who are the objects of the reading desires of Japan's real life and fictional girls. These representations appear in various genres, including prose fiction, such as Yoshiya Nobuko's Flower Stories and Takemoto Nobara's Kamikaze Girls , and manga, such as Yoshida Akimi's The Cherry Orchard. This volume presents the work of pioneering women scholars in the field of girl studies including translations of a ground-breaking essay by Honda Masuko on reading girls and Kawasaki Kenko's response to prejudicial masculine critiques of best-selling novelist, Yoshimoto Banana. Other topics range from the reception of Anne of Green Gables in Japan to girls who write and read male homoerotic narratives.

LC Classification NumberZ1037.8