Reading Mongolian Literature from a Gender Perspective

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  • ジェンダーの視点からモンゴル文学を読む
  • Focusing on “Women's Images” in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
  • 近現代小説の中の＜女性像＞を中心に

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As Mongolia was the world's second socialist country after the Soviet Union from 1924 until its democratization in 1990, its women's educational level and social advancement is high, and even today Mongolia ranks relatively high on the gender gap index among Asian countries. On the other hand, it has been pointed out that there are situations in which “traditional”gender norms from the pre-socialist period persist in society and within the family. In this paper, in order to understand Mongolian gender perspectives that are difficult to grasp by numerical indicators only, I would like to focus on the representations of women, especially wives, in Mongolian literature from the early 20th century to the present day, and examine their characteristics and transformations. Specifically, the study will focus on the following three writers by reading them from the gender perspective and attempting to make new interpretations: Ts.Damdinsuren (1908-1986), one of the founders of modern Mongolian literature, Ch.Lodoidamba (1917-1970), a writer who was active in the 1950s and 1960s and established the genre of historical novels, and L.Ulziitugs (1972-), a female writer and poet popular among young readers of today

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