ISBN:
9781793623881
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (275 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.40952
Keywords:
Human body-Social aspects-Japan
Abstract:
Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, literature, and culture. The contributors explore the body as a site of transformation, growth, ritual, decay, and personal identity.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE PERFORMED BODY -- 1 A Japanese Fox in a Woman's Body: Shifting Performances of Femininity in Kij Johnson's Reworking of Konjaku Monogatari -- 2 Call Me a Dog: Feeling (Inugami) Possession in Contemporary Tokushima Prefecture -- 3 Kabuki: Performance of Gendered Bodies -- 4 Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana): Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a Man's Heart Goes through His Stomach -- 5 The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga -- PART II: THE DE-FORMED BODY -- 6 The Body in Motion in Butō: Passivity and Transformation in the Flesh -- 7 Senility and the Body: Care and Gender in Contemporary Japanese Literature -- 8 The Cared-For Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Matsuura Rieko's Kenshin (The Dog's Body) -- 9 Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni Piasu -- 10 Literature as Social Activism and Reconciliation: Survivors' Writing and the Meaning of Hansen's Disease in Japan -- 11 The Bald and the Beautiful: Perspectives on Baldness in Contemporary Japan -- PART III: THE CONFORMED BODY -- 12 The Asian Body in North American Context: Visual and Literary Racialization -- 13 Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as "Ground Zero" -- 14 The Confined Body in Ogawa Yōko's The Ring Finger: A Beguiling Journey toward "Self-Discovery" -- 15 Bodies of Onna-no-ko: The Case of a Sex Establishment in Tokyo, Japan -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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