Richard H Okada: 1 book
Figures of Resistance
Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1991
In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted...
