Where to read A Womans Weapon: Spirit Possession in the Tale of Genji by Doris G. Bargen itunes get spanish free prewiew

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First off, I read the Tale of Genji raw, no notes, no essays, nothing other then looking up a few alternate translations where I was interested. I found A womans weapon to be an EXCELLENT review for me. I was also reading the Mistborn Series in the middle of this last year, and so things were lost in the back and forth between two disparate reads.My excellent lit professor in college was always a big one for just closing the book and asking, whats the author doing here? So I do that with everything I read, and its probably what makes me so sour because, often, the answer is just, making their word count higher...So in my review of Genji I had said that if Murisaki was doing anything, other then creating art, entertaining, and creating the novel from the clasic monagatari of her people, then she was informing a literate class of noble woman on the darker side of their future. I read the sareshina-nikki prior and in it the girl diarist, shes 8 or 10, and she is a) reading and writing, and b) specifically reading the sections of the Genji she can get her hands on before she arrive at court. Her mother is in full support of this as well. so, basically, a guide book.In that, I think I generally agree with basic idea Bargen is putting forth. 1) this is a book written by a female court lady primarily for other female court ladys. and I agree with 2) that once you internalize that and read the spirit possession from the point of view of the woman, the possession clearly become an act (whether of defiance, fear, anger, sadness, freedom depends) against being essentially trapped by family, custom, love, law, etc. My problem is not that Bargen is writing this from a feminist point of view. See, I often complain because a writer sometimes tries to be too(!) journalistic in their history or literary criticism... half the point of reading this kind of stuff is to get other peoples opinions. However, the author let it give her a bit of tunnel vision. I see this with books on food, animal rights, climate change. Authors start ignoring certain details and big picture concepts to get their own point across.She misses the nearly pan-Asian view of health. That is, in general, a persons mental, social, religious, and societal healths are all one and the same. Health is a balance of things. I dont think weve quite done more then a doctor with good bedside manner in the west (for worse or for better). For Bargen, possession is personal tool against male dominance. She bypasses the clear physical and religious ailments being suffered time and again. For her, its all male domination or female jealousy in the polygnous society. She seems to find it difficult to accept that some part of the problem derives from legitimate ailments.I think she also misrepresents taboo in reality and taboo as it appears in fiction. If the “Tale of Genji” was to be a real history, the Yugao chapter and her laying the groundwork for the Fujitsubo transgression would stick. But its fiction, its not real, and this is a work clearly made for the pleasure of Heian courtladys. If writing and poetry doesnt trangress a little taboo now and again, whod ever read it????Bargen also goes on about how stuck the woman are, but so too are all the characters. An author has created this landscape and these characters for a purpose - they are ALL slaves to the purpose. As well as slaves to their own culture and tradition. Murisaki can write about the Shining Prince because, within his world, he is the examplar. Even if we can see the world he is exemplifying is dark, decayed, and ready to fall under its own weight any moment (which is what happens no more then 50 years after Murasaki dies and stops writing the Genji). My point is that Genji can stand as a hero/anti-hero figure in this world only because he wasnt the one who started the fire. And clearly hes not putting it out.In the Murasaki/third princess section Bargen keeps pointing to how male choice, male dominance, male hegimony causes the possessions. So, sure. But lets not forget these girls were stolen from their houses at the ages of 8 or 9, by what passes in Heian court life has a weird form family consent. Call me crazy but I think wholesale abduction and stockholm syndrom might have more to do with the issues presented in Genji then anything else.In the Ukifune section she referred to the uterine purse that holds Kaoris parentage. Its not even a purse, they didnt have them, really. It was wrapped maki in silks as any such objects were kept and probably stored in a box. Shes summoning up female anatomical images for what reason?She completely misses the general sense of the Japanese longing for ephemeralism. She lost sight of it time and again, but really treads upon it ~pg 222-223 where she is just going on about “radical new way(s) to overcome human loss” and “patterns of metaphorical killing”. Jebus! its an aesthetic. The content of Genji as some serious nature of the content, but the author is ignoring the playful, fun, profound, and artistic content and slicing through layers of the trans-formative to get at the one she wants..Which, much like the Assassins Creed movie the wife and I just saw (and probably why Im putting it here) the author simply misses out, wholesale, on the playful nature of the text. These are the people who about more excrement in their primary holy book the kojiki then youd hear about on Howard Stern. OR Murasakis own diary One had a little fault in the colour combination at the wrist opening. When she went before the Royal presence to fetch something, the nobles and high officials noticed it. Afterwards, Lady Saisho regretted it deeply. It was not so bad; only one colour was a little too pale.Have you seen their game shows? Again, The Genji was a source of entertainment as much as anything else you want to pull out of it. Bargen is just rips the playfulness out and leaves a ghost strewn nightmare landscape of prisons on prisons. Its like you read a Cantacle for Leibovitzs and miss out on the fact it starts by a monk finding some dead dudes shopping list!Too much cutting away of the fabric from the Genji, Bargen ends up stripping the skin as well, and were left not with the exposed body of Heian court-life but with a bloodied carcass that looks more like 1980s america.Three stars are entirely for Bargen bringing together classic and modern Genji analysis in what would be an excellent review with a great premise, if only she didnt go the route of Dr. Steinman and cut too deep....
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