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katekatTranslation? Second research paper outline is done, printed, and packed in the schoolbag for tomorrow. Oh yes. It's done. It's finally done. (well, except for the actual paper writing part, but I won't start that for another couple of weeks, and since the outline actually contains thesis and conclusion, quotes and theory, it's just waiting for some textual examples to fill in the corners). And you know what's even better? I love this paper. I want to cuddle it. I mean, it probably won't be as cool in actual form as the outline, but damn, if it comes close I might actually be getting better at this thing I like to call writing. Better at creating a sophisticated argument. Better at reading arguments and bending them to my will. [insert evil laugh here]
be warned - this is the 'rough cut' thesis, so all you beta people out there that don't like the phrasing, it *will* change.
Barbara Hartley explains, in "Writing the Body of the Mother: Narrative Moments in Tsushima Uuko, Ariyoshi Sawako and Enchi Fumiko", that feminist criticism about Japan has largely ignored the “mother”. She goes on to argue that, although criticism has ignored it, the texts she discusses in her paper are actively engaged in representing the corporeal existence of motherhood as a powerful transformative process.
I would like to extend her theory one further step, suggesting that, in Kono Taeko’s “Ants Swarm”, Enchi Fumiko’s Masks, Takashi Taeko’s “Congruent Figures” and Hayashi Fumiko’s “Narcissus”, the representations of mother, not just in a corporeal expression of motherhood but inherent in the role itself, are also engaged in this transformative process, and are the most powerful female agents for change and disruption.
The depiction of mother in these stories is both compelling and powerful, although not necessarily comforting. However disturbing this conception of a complex and often mean or vindictive construction of mother is, this paper will discuss exactly how those constructed mothers are able to exert more power and influence over their lives and the lives of their children, and explore the ways those strategies for power suggest an a revision of the ideal of a supportive but powerless mother, transforming her into the most powerful feminine role.
And, my boy is back, safely ensconsed in the house on the couch with his kitty by his side and his parents on the phone. It's not like I forgot him in a week (especially since we talked every night) but I missed his physical presence. And just missed *him*. There are things you don't talk to eachother about when you're on the phone... forget to mention, you know, all of that.
All seems right with the world. Sure I haven't done as much reading for tomorrow's classes as I ought (but hey, I had a paper to write), sure I need to study for a quiz on tuesday and another test on Friday (yes, I've had a test every two weeks since the beginning of February), but I'm now going to curl up next to a handsome man and enjoy being done.
be warned - this is the 'rough cut' thesis, so all you beta people out there that don't like the phrasing, it *will* change.
Barbara Hartley explains, in "Writing the Body of the Mother: Narrative Moments in Tsushima Uuko, Ariyoshi Sawako and Enchi Fumiko", that feminist criticism about Japan has largely ignored the “mother”. She goes on to argue that, although criticism has ignored it, the texts she discusses in her paper are actively engaged in representing the corporeal existence of motherhood as a powerful transformative process.
I would like to extend her theory one further step, suggesting that, in Kono Taeko’s “Ants Swarm”, Enchi Fumiko’s Masks, Takashi Taeko’s “Congruent Figures” and Hayashi Fumiko’s “Narcissus”, the representations of mother, not just in a corporeal expression of motherhood but inherent in the role itself, are also engaged in this transformative process, and are the most powerful female agents for change and disruption.
The depiction of mother in these stories is both compelling and powerful, although not necessarily comforting. However disturbing this conception of a complex and often mean or vindictive construction of mother is, this paper will discuss exactly how those constructed mothers are able to exert more power and influence over their lives and the lives of their children, and explore the ways those strategies for power suggest an a revision of the ideal of a supportive but powerless mother, transforming her into the most powerful feminine role.
And, my boy is back, safely ensconsed in the house on the couch with his kitty by his side and his parents on the phone. It's not like I forgot him in a week (especially since we talked every night) but I missed his physical presence. And just missed *him*. There are things you don't talk to eachother about when you're on the phone... forget to mention, you know, all of that.
All seems right with the world. Sure I haven't done as much reading for tomorrow's classes as I ought (but hey, I had a paper to write), sure I need to study for a quiz on tuesday and another test on Friday (yes, I've had a test every two weeks since the beginning of February), but I'm now going to curl up next to a handsome man and enjoy being done.
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Date: 2005-04-18 05:33 am (UTC)Dude. Who would comment on their friend's entry of happiness at finishing a big assignment to say, "hey, your thesis? crap diction and awkward phrasing. minus ten points."
:D
*hugs*
Ooh, you sound like you have a lovely night ahead of you. Yay!
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Date: 2005-04-18 06:48 pm (UTC)And thanks! It was absolutely perfect. *grin*
I? Love my icon!
Date: 2005-04-18 05:42 am (UTC)I'm also doing the dance of the bounce that you're finished with your outline! I'm not even closed to finished, so it's so nice to know one of us isn't a crap student ;)
As per the subject: I adore my new icon. So much. It rocks much!
*hug hug hug*
~e!
She just won't shut up, will she?
Date: 2005-04-18 05:43 am (UTC)~e!
Re: She just won't shut up, will she?
Date: 2005-04-18 06:51 pm (UTC)Question to both EB and Kate
Date: 2005-04-18 06:18 am (UTC)Nice job kate!
Re: Question to both EB and Kate
Date: 2005-04-18 06:26 pm (UTC):D
Re: I? Love my icon!
Date: 2005-04-18 06:50 pm (UTC)And *you're not a crap student*! I'm just sorta agro. It's funny because most of the people in my class came in with crap outlines... so mines not quite as bad as theirs.
And I'm soooooooooooo glad you love your new icon!! *squee*
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Date: 2005-04-18 05:44 am (UTC)Want to share some of that willpower over here?
Nope. Apparently she won't shut up
Date: 2005-04-18 05:53 am (UTC)~e!
Re: Nope. Apparently she won't shut up
Date: 2005-04-18 06:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-18 06:55 pm (UTC)(what i usually find happening is that the timer goes off the first time and i'm actually paying attention to work for a change so i don't stop... )
(and yes, i know, i regulate my life too much. 20 minutes this, 20 minutes that. sigh. this is what i get for being a control freak)
Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Date: 2005-04-19 01:14 am (UTC)Allison, Anne. Permitted and Prohibited Desires:
Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan.
Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8499.html
You don't need to read all the manga stuff, intro mat'l describes in some detail a sort of counterfreudian psychology proposed by an early Japanese psychoanalyst focusing on mother-child relationships, as opposed to Freudian oedipality, as well as the concrete role of mothers in Japan ...
Re: Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Date: 2005-04-19 02:07 am (UTC)How freakishly fabulous is this? My university actually has an online e-book version of it that I just found.
Re: Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Date: 2005-04-20 01:54 am (UTC)http://www.naikan-do.de/naikan/doublet.html