caa a22 4500 386405727 CHVBK 20180307112220.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2057664 doi S0021911800049664 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2057664 Mulhern Chieko Irie Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction [Elektronische Daten] [Chieko Irie Mulhern] My country "is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women,” goes one of the most frequently quoted gender-related adages. Japanologists might be tempted to attribute this uncourtly utterance to a learned nobleman of Heian Japan (794-1185) embittered by the outpouring of vernacular narratives from women's writing brushes that were eclipsing male endeavors to emulate Chinese classics, or to an exasperated modern Japanese novelist in reference to the neo-Heian phenomenon, namely, the renaissance of women's literature in postwar Japan. Actually it was Nathaniel Hawthorne (1855:141) who made the now infamous sexist remark in chagrin at American women who were churning out best-sellers in force. Thereafter, this phenomenon abated for a full century, but since the 1960s, Western women writers have made a glorious resurgence, marked by unprecedented degrees of output and worldwide market domination in a genre known as the romance fiction. The title of the first romance series and the name of its publisher, Harlequin, has become something like a generic term with multiple signification. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-02), 50-70 0021-9118 48:1<50 1989 48 JAS https://doi.org/10.2307/2057664 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2057664 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mulhern Chieko Irie NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 48/1(1989-02), 50-70 0021-9118 48:1<50 1989 48 JAS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge