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" Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire "
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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802698
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TL47868
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1566402403; 3631999
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| Main Entry
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Khanani, Ahmed
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Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire
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\ Nobuko Ishitate-Okumiya Yamasaki
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Mack, Edward T.
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University of Washington
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2014
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Ph.D.
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2014
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Comparative Literature
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209
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Committee members: Braester, Yomi; Rafael, Vicente L.; Reddy, Chandan; Sumida, Stephen
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-11219-1
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| Abstract
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By exploring various figures of gendered and sexualized female workers, such as street prostitutes, hostesses, comfort women, teachers, idols, and actresses, this dissertation reveals that women's bodies were highly contested territories of knowledge in the Japanese Empire. Their bodies were sites of political struggle where racial, national, and class differences met, competed, and complicated one another. The dissertation elucidates the processes by which those women's bodies became integral parts of Empire building during the imperial period (1894-1945), suggesting that its colonial and imperial legacies are still active even today. Unlike some preceding works on Japanese colonial literature have shown, many of these figures fall away from normative discourses of the trope of family contributing to Empire building. In other words, theirs is a politics of the perverse. With careful attention to intersections of race, sex, class, and affect, the dissertation contributes to the study of Japanese Empire, which tends to focus on men and avoids subtle readings of women's bodies.
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Comparative literature; Asian literature; Womens studies; Literary translation; Diaspora; Ethics; Japanese language; Politics; Parents parenting; Feminism; Teachers; Women; Ideology; Korean language
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Colonialism;Gender and sexuality;Japanese empire;Japanese literature and film;Nationalism;Race
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Mack, Edward T.
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University of Washington
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Comparative Literature
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