ENGLISH

Girl Reading Girl in Japan

By Hartley , Tomoko , Barbara;Aoyama

Book information

Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Year
2012
ISBN
9780415547420, 9780203869062, 9781135247966, 113524796X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4175174 bytes)
Series
Asia's transformations
Pages
257 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Girls--Books and reading--Japan;Girls in literatur

Description

Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a number of chapters also consider how fictional girls read attention is given to the diverse cultural representations of the girl, or shôjo, who are the objects of the reading desires of Japan's real life and fictional girls. These representations appear in.

Similar books