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Elizabeth Oyler specializes in medieval Japanese narrative
and performance, with a particular focus on the Heike monogatari
(Tales of the Heike) and the genres with which it interacts.
She has recently published Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic
Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan (University
of Hawai'i Press, 2006), supported by grants from the Japan
Foundation and the ACLS. Her articles include "Gio: Women
and Performance in the Heike monogatari" (Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies 64:2) and "Daimokutate:
Placatory Ritual and the Genpei War" (forthcoming, Oral
Tradition). She is currently editing a volume of translations
and essays on the Heike and no drama. Her current
book project, "Remembering Women: Voice and Performance
Modes in Medieval Japanese Narrative and Drama," addresses
the idea of "the feminine" in Heike biwa recitation
and the no drama. She argues that idealized gender roles are
marked not only in portrayals of heroes and heroines, but
also in lyrical modes of presentation of both arts: the feminine
mode is that of lament, the masculine that of action. The
monograph addresses the significance of foregrounding gender
in this context, and how it is used to give meaning to both
individual works as well as the genres themselves.
http://journal.oraltradition.org
(Oral Tradition Journal)
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/
(PMJS: Premodern Japanese Studies)
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