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Author:

Ganz, Shoshannah, 1976- author.

Title:

Eastern encounters : Canadian women's writing about the East, 1867-1929 / Shoshannah Ganz.

Publisher:

National Taiwan University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

233 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Women authors, Canadian--Social conditions.
Women and literature--Canada--History.
Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Asia--In literature.
Canadian literature--Women authors.
Literature.
Women and literature.
Asia.
Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.

Contents:

Sara Jeannette Duncan, Mrs. Howard Vincent and Ellen Agnes Bilbrough: Canadian travel writing about Japan, China, and India -- A fictional remembering of India? Anna Leonowens's travel writing -- The eastern threat to women's enfranchisement in Nellie McClung's Purple Springs -- 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) -- The teachings of the compassionate Beck: Buddhist philosophy, pilgrimage, and The House of Fulfilment.

Series:

East-West cultural encounters in literature & cultural studies.

ISBN:

9863502308
9789863502302

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1000268321

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)