Japanese Animal-wife Tales

Japanese Animal-wife Tales
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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 1453913440
ISBN-13 : 9781453913444
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Book Synopsis Japanese Animal-wife Tales by : Fumihiko Kobayashi

Download or read book Japanese Animal-wife Tales written by Fumihiko Kobayashi and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 naive, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition."


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