Trans-gender Themes in Japanese Literature From the Medieval to Meiji Eras

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze various texts from Japanese literary history and extract the instances of trans-gender performances from those texts. I define “trans-gender” behaviors as actions that are culturally expected of the gender opposite that of the gender assigned to the performer...

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Main Author: Riggan, Jessica
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2017
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/532
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1568&context=masters_theses_2