Erotic desire as a woman's way of knowing the divine: reading Arishima Taeko, A Certain Woman
This article examines a Japanese novel written by Arishima Takeo, A Certain Woman (first published in Japanese in 1919), in order to explore women's ways of knowing, focusing on the body and erotic desire as a locus where the human-God relationship is embodied. This novel shows a way of knowing...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2020
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Body and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 82-104 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Arishima, Takeo 1878-1923, Aru-onʹna
/ Sexual behavior
/ Christianity
/ Relationship to God
/ Love
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Arishima Takeo
B Feminist Theology B Gender and Sexuality |
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| Summary: | This article examines a Japanese novel written by Arishima Takeo, A Certain Woman (first published in Japanese in 1919), in order to explore women's ways of knowing, focusing on the body and erotic desire as a locus where the human-God relationship is embodied. This novel shows a way of knowing the Divine beyond language and the sanitized notion of love, describing the life of a modern Japanese Christian woman who refuses both Japanese colonial woman-hood and Christian (Victorian) sexual ethics. Depicting the divine presence in the protagonist's promiscuous and stigmatized body, Arishima asks theological questions about the role of eros and violence in the pursuit of God, and seeks radically free God and humans who may go beyond any existing boundaries. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.17910 |