內容簡介
內容簡介 Eastern Encounters releases early Canadian women writers from a simple focus on autobiography and racial politics and interrogates their specific and sophisticated Asian influences. With a compelling reconstruction of historical context, Ganz has created perhaps the first book in a much-needed series that will revisit Canadian nationalism through the important cultural exchanges she examines. Though shaped with an Asian readership in mind, Eastern Encounters is an important work for all who wish to challenge the notion that Judeo-Christian traditions almost exclusively shaped early Canadian discourse.
產品目錄
產品目錄 Dedication Introduction 1 Sara Jeannette Duncan, Mrs. Howard Vincent and Ellen Agnes Bilbrough: Canadian Travel Writing About Japan, China, and India 2 A Fictional Remembering of India? Anna Leonowens’s Travel Writing 3 The Eastern Threat to Women’s Enfranchisement in Nellie McClung’s Purple Springs 4 Literary Fake or Translating Genius? Onoto Watanna’s Translations of Japanese Literary Motifs from The Tale of Genji in Tama (1910) and The Honourable Miss Moonlight (1912) 5 The Teachings of the Compassionate Beck: Buddhist Philosophy, Pilgrimage, and The House of Fulfilment Postscript Acknowledgements Previously Published Works Consulted Index