TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,Indra
TI  - Sirens of the Western Shore: Westernesque Women and Translation in Modern Japanese Literature 
SN  - 9780231137867
U1  - 895.60935 23
PY  - 2006///
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
KW  - Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -
KW  - Literature - Classics / Criticism
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Japanese
KW  - ASIA
KW  - Western influences
N2  - Introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language.  She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and theater
ER  -