%0 Journal Article
%T Re-writing ¡®Woman¡¯: New Woman Hybridity in Araki Iku¡¯s ¡°The Letter¡± and Charlotte Perkins Gilman¡¯s ¡°Turned¡±
%A Khou
%A Carrie
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2012
%I University of Regensburg
%X Turn-of-the-century (1890-1920) short fiction in Japan and the United States portrays the New Woman as a figure of hybridization subverting the legitimacy of binary gender codes. This article outlines how Charlotte Perkins Gilman¡¯s story ¡°Turned¡± and Araki Iku¡¯s ¡°The Letter¡± exemplify and interrogate the hybrid nature of the New Woman concept. The concept of hybridity serves to reveal female identity as negotiable and permeable, simultaneously disclosing the New Woman as a transnational figure, which enables a broad set of cultural interpretations.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/145/173