John Wallace (East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)
| DATE: | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-2:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Brown Bag Lecture |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies |
Heian Images from sjsu digital art lobby
In the journals and memoirs (nikki) written by women during the Heian period, the time when memoirs were in their early stages as a genre, nothing is more frequently stolen or misplaced than letters and other compositions written by women. This talk explores how misdirected, misplaced, and stolen letters, or even words cut from letters, are entangled in issues of the status of the female voice, both as one of reduced authority and, contrarily, as finding strategic value in its marginalized position.
This event is free and open to the public.
