{"product_id":"women-adrift-1","title":"Women Adrift","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen’s bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. \u003c\/i\u003eWith this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in \u003ci\u003eWomen Adrift\u003c\/i\u003e to show how women’s actions and representations of women’s bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscussions of empire building in Japan routinely employ the idea of \u003ci\u003ekokutai\u003c\/i\u003e—the national body—as a way of conceptualizing Japan as a nation-state. \u003ci\u003eWomen Adrift\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how women impacted this notion, and how women’s actions affected perceptions of the national body. Horiguchi broadens the debate over Japanese women’s agency by focusing on works that move between \u003ci\u003enaichi\u003c\/i\u003e, the inner territory of the empire of Japan, and \u003ci\u003egaichi\u003c\/i\u003e, the outer territory; specifically, she analyzes the boundary-crossing writings of three prominent female authors: Yosano Akiko (1878–1942), Tamura Toshiko (1884–1945), and Hayashi Fumiko (1904–1951). In these examples—and in Naruse Mikio’s postwar film adaptations of Hayashi’s work—Horiguchi reveals how these writers asserted their own agency by transgressing the borders of nation and gender. At the same time, we see how their work, conducted under various colonial conditions, ended up reinforcing Japanese nationalism, racialism, and imperial expansion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her reappraisal of the paradoxical positions of these women writers, Horiguchi complicates narratives of Japanese empire and of women’s role in its expansion. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Noriko J. Horiguchi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616423698812,"sku":"9780816669783","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_c6e26d2a-7513-4721-9572-8044496b7925.jpg?v=1746711759","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/women-adrift-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}