Japanese animal-wife tales: narrating gender reality in japanese folktale tradition
Auteur :
Kobayashi, Fumihiko
Éditeur :
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN :
9781433126918
Date de publication :
17 déc. 2014
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
420 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than naïve, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.