Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan - Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies (Paperback)


Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death. Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women's own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.

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Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the state even in the face of death. Through examination of their own life stories and writings, Helene Bowen Raddeker brings to life the women's own interpretations of their lives and their attitudes to death, with the associations of political martyrdom, heroism and notions of immortality. She finds that their self-presentations became weapons in an ideological war of words about social and political realities and their deaths were a means of self-empowerment within their historical context.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Routledge

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

Release date

February 2016

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

1997

Authors

Dimensions

216 x 138 x 31mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

292

ISBN-13

978-1-138-98613-8

Barcode

9781138986138

Categories

LSN

1-138-98613-5



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