Through blue-gray eyes: Arthur Golden's, Memoirs of a Geisha as orientalist discourse
Date of Publication
2006
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Literature
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature
Thesis Adviser
David Jonathan Bayot
Defense Panel Member
Dinah Sianturi Roma
Genevieve Asenjo
Ma. Teresa Wright
Abstract/Summary
This study is about Arthur Golden's novel, Memoirs of a Geisha analyzed through Edward Said's concept of Orientalism. Its concern is to examine how the book has shown gestures of Orientalism of Japan through one of its cultural icons, the geisha. It includes a summary of the history, traditions and matters concerning the flower and willow world of the geisha as well as the issues that surrounded the introduction of the book into Western discourse. With the analysis of the novel in the critique of Orientalism, this study will recognize how the West's image of the Orient is affected with its depiction of the geisha in the novel.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU13712
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
iv, 55, xii leaves ; ill. ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Geishas--Fiction; Women--Japan; Japan--History-- 20th century--Fiction
Recommended Citation
De Rivera, M. M. (2006). Through blue-gray eyes: Arthur Golden's, Memoirs of a Geisha as orientalist discourse. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2110
