ภาพแทนตัวละครและวัฒนธรรมเกอิชาใน เมมัวร์ส์ ออฟ อะ เกอิชา และ เกอิชา, อะ ไลฟ์ / วชิรกรณ์ อาจคุ้มวงษ์ = Representations of geisha character and culture in Memoirs of a Geisha and Geisha, a Life / Vajirakorn Ardkhumwong
To study the representations of geisha character and culture in Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha and Mineko Iwasaki's Geisha: a Life through an analysis of western perceptions of geisha and counter-representations of geisha culture and identity by a Japanese geisha. The study finds that the representation of geisha in Memoirs of a Geisha is constructed through the male-dominated Orientalist discourse of the West. Geisha traditions are presented as desirable and frightening. Geisha culture is mystified as an intersection between the erotic and the exotic in which the geisha figures as an object of male sexual desire. In addition, the characterization of geisha and the narrative of the novel are shaped by the ideology of western patriarchy through the American concept of success. In contrast, Geisha: a Life is an autobiographical narrative of real life experience of a Japanese geisha to counter western representations of the geisha. The work redefines the geisha identity in relation to the Japanese traditions of beauty and geisha culture as a sacred vocation. In addition, the geisha also figures as a modern Japanese woman who can performa a career in art and who can live an independent life.
SUBJECT
โกลเด้น
อาเธอร์. เมมัวส์ ออฟ อะ เกอิชา
อิวะซะกิ
มิเนะโกะ. เกอิชา
อะ ไลฟ์
เกอิชา -- ญี่ปุ่น
เกอิชาในวรรณกรรม
Golden
Arthur
1957-. Memoirs of a geisha -- Criticism and interpretation
Iwasaki
Mineko
1949-. Geisha : a life -- Criticism and interpretation