Masking selves, making subjects : Japanese American women, identity, and the body / Traise Yamamoto.

This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. Through an examination of p...

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Main Author: Yamamoto, Traise, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
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505 0 |a "As natural as the partnership of sun and moon": western masculinity, Japanese women and the feminization of Japan -- In/visible difference: Japanese American female subjectivity -- "That other, private self": masking in Nisei women's autobiography -- Mothers, daughters and the trope of maternal absence in Japanese American women's fiction -- Embodied language: the poetics of Mitsuye Yamada, Janice Mirikitani and Kimiko Hahn. 
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520 0 |a Yamamoto's range is broad, and her interdisciplinary approach yields richly textured, in-depth readings of a number of genres, including film and travel narrative. Looking at how the West has sexualized, infantilized, and feminized Japanese culture for over a century, she examines contemporary Japanese American women's struggle with this orientalist fantasy. Analyzing the various constraints and possibilities that these writers negotiate in order to articulate their differences, she shows how masking serves as a self-affirming discourse that dynamically interacts with mainstream culture's racial and sexual projections. 
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