The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father

by Rebecca Copeland

This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824824385
• ISBN13: 9780824824389
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"