Dollase Age of Shojo

The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls' Magazine Fiction
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7392-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shojo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dollase, Hiromi Tsuchiya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Shofujin (Little Women): Re-creating Jo for the Female Audience in Meiji Japan

2. Shojo sekai (Girls' World): The Formation of Girls' Magazine Culture and the Emergence of "Scribbling Girls"

3. Yoshiya Nobuko and Kitagawa Chiyo: Fiction by and for Girls

4. Shojo Feminism in Semi-autobiographical Stories by Yoshiya Nobuko and Morita Tama

5. Shojo no tomo (Girls' Friend): Conflicting Ideals of Girls on the Home Front

6. Himawari (Sunflower): Reimagining Shojo during the Occupation Period

7. Himuro Saeko's Shojo Heroines from Heian to Showa

8. Tanabe Seiko and the Age of Shojo

Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is Associate Professor of Japanese at Vassar College.