Angela Coutts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3662851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Coutts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Coutts |
| SIGNATURE | COUTTS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembering Anne Frank in Japan
In 2010 the novel Otome no Mikkoku / The Maiden’s Betrayal by the contemporary Japanese female author Akazome Akiko was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. The work is controversial for its use of Anne Frank’s diary and for being written in the style of lightweight popular girls’ fiction. This article demonstrates how narrative structure, intertextuality, and parody are used to create a complex cultural critique of the relatio…
Aftermath
This article highlights the important contribution made by Kamichika Ichiko to the interwar publishing scene by providing an overview of the literary journal Fujin Bungei launched by her and an analysis of three stories it published from leading female writers of the era, Matsuda Tokiko, Hirabayashi Eiko and Asai Hanako. Fujin Bungei was a rare oppositional voice within the media that questioned the narrow nationalism sanctioned and promoted by t…
How do we write a revolution? Debating the masses and the vanguard in the literary reviews of Nyonin geijutsu
This article discusses five literary reviews published in Nyonin geijutsu (Women's arts) by four leading feminist activists, Ikuta Hanayo, Yagi Akiko, Nakamoto Takako and Hirabayashi Taiko. It explores the journal's struggle to gain a foothold in the expanding market for radical mass literature and highlights some of the key debates taking place in the journal about the role of the writer and the nature of literature during the unstable interwar …
Imagining Radical Women in Interwar Japan
This article explores the relationship between the female body and revolution in Japan during an era of immense social change (1923–31). It focuses on the different ways in which the female body is depicted by the socialist and feminist journals of the era, mainly through the medium of political cartoons. The publications under discussions are the leftist journals Bungei sensen (Literary arts front; 1924–29) and Senki (Battle flag; 1927–31) and t…
Gender and Literary Production in Modern Japan
Meshi by Hayashi Fumiko
In this article, I present a critical interpretation of Meshi (1951) by the modern female Japanese author Hayashi Fumiko (1903–1951). I explore the ways in which Hayashi's depiction of contemporary anxieties about male and female roles in a time of occupation by a foreign power can be analysed as an interaction between gender and national identity. I focus specifically on the ways that different concepts of the domestic are played out against opp…
The gendering of Japanese literature
Ideas about what constitutes the canon of Modern Japanese Literature have been greatly influenced in the West by English-language translations. This article explores the gendering of the canon through an analysis of the numbers of works by men and women translated in the five major anthologies of modern Japanese literature. It emerges that there is a significant neglect of translation of the works of women from 1868-1945, thus creating an impress…
Remembering Anne Frank in Japan
In 2010 the novel Otome no Mikkoku / The Maiden’s Betrayal by the contemporary Japanese female author Akazome Akiko was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. The work is controversial for its use of Anne Frank’s diary and for being written in the style of lightweight popular girls’ fiction. This article demonstrates how narrative structure, intertextuality, and parody are used to create a complex cultural critique of the relatio…
Imagining Radical Women in Interwar Japan
This article explores the relationship between the female body and revolution in Japan during an era of immense social change (1923–31). It focuses on the different ways in which the female body is depicted by the socialist and feminist journals of the era, mainly through the medium of political cartoons. The publications under discussions are the leftist journals Bungei sensen (Literary arts front; 1924–29) and Senki (Battle flag; 1927–31) and t…
The gendering of Japanese literature
Ideas about what constitutes the canon of Modern Japanese Literature have been greatly influenced in the West by English-language translations. This article explores the gendering of the canon through an analysis of the numbers of works by men and women translated in the five major anthologies of modern Japanese literature. It emerges that there is a significant neglect of translation of the works of women from 1868-1945, thus creating an impress…
The gendering of Japanese literature
Ideas about what constitutes the canon of Modern Japanese Literature have been greatly influenced in the West by English-language translations. This article explores the gendering of the canon through an analysis of the numbers of works by men and women translated in the five major anthologies of modern Japanese literature. It emerges that there is a significant neglect of translation of the works of women from 1868-1945, thus creating an impress…
Meshi by Hayashi Fumiko
In this article, I present a critical interpretation of Meshi (1951) by the modern female Japanese author Hayashi Fumiko (1903–1951). I explore the ways in which Hayashi's depiction of contemporary anxieties about male and female roles in a time of occupation by a foreign power can be analysed as an interaction between gender and national identity. I focus specifically on the ways that different concepts of the domestic are played out against opp…
Gender and Literary Production in Modern Japan
Imagining Radical Women in Interwar Japan
This article explores the relationship between the female body and revolution in Japan during an era of immense social change (1923–31). It focuses on the different ways in which the female body is depicted by the socialist and feminist journals of the era, mainly through the medium of political cartoons. The publications under discussions are the leftist journals Bungei sensen (Literary arts front; 1924–29) and Senki (Battle flag; 1927–31) and t…
Remembering Anne Frank in Japan
In 2010 the novel Otome no Mikkoku / The Maiden’s Betrayal by the contemporary Japanese female author Akazome Akiko was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for literature. The work is controversial for its use of Anne Frank’s diary and for being written in the style of lightweight popular girls’ fiction. This article demonstrates how narrative structure, intertextuality, and parody are used to create a complex cultural critique of the relatio…
Aftermath
This article highlights the important contribution made by Kamichika Ichiko to the interwar publishing scene by providing an overview of the literary journal Fujin Bungei launched by her and an analysis of three stories it published from leading female writers of the era, Matsuda Tokiko, Hirabayashi Eiko and Asai Hanako. Fujin Bungei was a rare oppositional voice within the media that questioned the narrow nationalism sanctioned and promoted by t…
How do we write a revolution? Debating the masses and the vanguard in the literary reviews of Nyonin geijutsu
This article discusses five literary reviews published in Nyonin geijutsu (Women's arts) by four leading feminist activists, Ikuta Hanayo, Yagi Akiko, Nakamoto Takako and Hirabayashi Taiko. It explores the journal's struggle to gain a foothold in the expanding market for radical mass literature and highlights some of the key debates taking place in the journal about the role of the writer and the nature of literature during the unstable interwar …
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