{"id":177,"date":"2017-09-24T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/?p=177"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T20:18:55","slug":"reading-list-japanese-feminist-lens-in-the-diving-pool-by-yoko-ogawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/2017\/09\/24\/reading-list-japanese-feminist-lens-in-the-diving-pool-by-yoko-ogawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List: Japanese Feminist Lens in The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I) Secondary\/ Theoretical Works:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Columbia Journal of Modern Japanese Literature<\/li>\n
  2. Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature<\/li>\n
  3. The Woman\u2019s Hand: Gender & Theory in Japanese Women\u2019s Writing<\/li>\n
  4. World Literature Today<\/li>\n
  5. Eastlit<\/li>\n
  6. Electric Literature<\/li>\n
  7. The Uncanny, Freud<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    (II) Academic Journals:<\/p>\n

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    1. The Journal of Japanese Studies<\/li>\n
    2. AATJ Journal: Japanese Language and Literature<\/li>\n
    3. Brill\u2019s Journal of World Literature<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      (III) Key Words:<\/p>\n

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      1. Gender<\/li>\n
      2. Japanese\/Literature<\/li>\n
      3. Post-colonial<\/li>\n
      4. Sexuality<\/li>\n
      5. Psyche<\/li>\n
      6. Grotesque<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        (IV) Paragraph:<\/p>\n

        For this reading list, I put together these sources with the help of Professor Menon. Although she has a similar background to what I\u2019m looking to find, she apologized for not specializing and for not being familiar with East Asian literature. Despite this, we compiled a list of sources that compliment my argument quite well. I wanted to focus my secondary sources on what I am planning on using as my primary source, The Diving Pool<\/em>, by Yoko Ogawa. A female Japanese author wrote this compilation of three novellas; all three novellas center around three different female protagonists. I plan to attack this through a feminist lens, and how the female body (and bodies in general) is portrayed in this book, and in addition I will attempt to add to the feminist lens by looking at the Japanese female perspective (The Woman\u2019s Hand: Gender & Theory in Japanese Women\u2019s Writing<\/em>). I also found Yoko Ogawa\u2019s book to have a unique sense of the grotesque attached to it, which is what inspired me to add Feud\u2019s The Uncanny<\/em> to the list, as well as the key words psyche and grotesque. I believe that not only with the Japanese female perspective compliment this text, but also to recognize the unique ability of Ogawa to portray the female body in both appealing ways and in disturbing ways. It is unclear whether or not she was attempting to bring to light the female body and make a statement about it, but for my research, I believe this would be an interesting way to look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        (I) Secondary\/ Theoretical Works: The Columbia Journal of Modern Japanese Literature Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature The Woman\u2019s Hand: Gender & Theory in Japanese Women\u2019s Writing World Literature Today Eastlit Electric Literature The Uncanny, Freud   (II) Academic Journals: The Journal of Japanese Studies AATJ Journal: Japanese Language and Literature Brill\u2019s Journal of World … Continue reading Reading List: Japanese Feminist Lens in The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145910,145911,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-posts","category-2017-reading-lists","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}