Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality In Japanese Folktale Tradition (International Folkloristics)

By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than na?e, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.

• • Author: Fumihiko Kobayashi
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Dec 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 198 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433126915
• • ISBN-13: 9781433126918