Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan
Hospitable Friendship
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 January 2022
- ISBN 9780198871439
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 222x142x18 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English 191
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Short description:
Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love between Victorian female travellers and Meiji Japanese between 1853 and 1912.
MoreLong description:
Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan: Hospitable Friendship examines forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and intimacy between Victorian female travel writers and Meiji Japanese. Drawing on unpublished primary sources and contemporary Japanese literature hithero untranslated into English it highlights the open subjectivity and addective relationality of Isabella Bird, Mary Crawford Fraser, and Marie Stopes in their interactions with Japanese hosts.
Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan demonstates how travel narratives and literary works about non-colonial Japan complicate and challenge Oriental stereotypes and imperial binaries. It traces the shifts in the representation of Japan in Victorian discourse from obsequious mousmé to virile samurai alongside transitions in the Anglo-Japanese bilateral relationship and global geopolitical events. Considering the ethical and political implications of how Victorian women wrote about their Japanese friends, it examines how female travellers created counter discourses. It charts the unexplored terrain of female interracial and cross-cultural friendship and love in Victorian literature, emphasizing the agency of female travellers against the scholarly tendency to depoliticize their literary praxis. It also offers parallel narratives of three Meiji women in Britain - Tsuda Umeko, Yasui Tetsu, and Yosano Akiko -and transnational feminist alliance.
The book is a celebration of the political possibility of female friendship and literature, and a reminder of the ethical responsibility of representing racial and cultural others.
Such work could enhance cross-cultural understanding, just as she says the work of these travelers did for their own audiences
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Hospitable Friendship: Victorian Women Travellers and the Praxis of Ethical Relationality
A Traveller Who Laughs: Isabella Bird and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
A Literary Diplomat: Mary Crawford Fraser and A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan
A Scientist in Love: Marie Stopes and A Journal from Japan
