Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body

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Shows how women figured in the expansion of the Japanese empire. Women's bodies contributed to the expansion of the Japanese empire. With this bold opening, Noriko J. Horiguchi sets out in Women Adrift to show how women's actions and representations of women's bodies redrew the border and expanded, rather than transcended, the empire of Japan.

Noriko J. Horiguchi is associate professor of Japanese literature at the University of Tennessee.

"Women Adrift is a rigorous, sophisticated, and nuanced investigation that refuses to reduce the complexity of the issues it raises to platitudes and fixed assumptions about the nature of colonialism in general, women's writing under the gaze of empire in particular." -Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California "Noriko J. Horiguchi's study, by focusing on the material and discursive bodies of these famous women writers, not only sheds new light on the complexity and uses of kokutai ideology, but also pushes us to rethink our assessment of their bodies of works." -Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill