Fragrant Spaces between Words: Prolonging Shōjo Liminality into Adulthood in the Poetry of Yonezawa Nobuko
This essay argues that, in 1920s Japanese Symbolist poetry and perfume advertising, women inhabit a space of ambiguity, where bodily experience is elevated as the highest form of creativity and knowledge. Yonezawa’s poems prolong the liminality of the shōjo, or girl, archetype into adult womanhood,...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Japanese Language and Literature |
| Online Access: | http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/77 |