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.
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.
Irina Holca is associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Carmen S¿punaru T¿mä is associate professor at the University of Hyogo.
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Part I: The Performed Body Chapter One: A Japanese Fox in a Woman's Body: Shifting Performances of Femininity in Kij Johnson's Reworking of Konjaku Monogatari Luciana Cardi Chapter Two: Call Me a Dog. Feeling (Inugami) Possession in Contemporary Tokushima Prefecture Andrea De Antoni Chapter Three: Kabuki: Performance of Gendered Bodies Galia Todorova Gabrovska Chapter Four: Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a Man's Heart Goes through His Stomach: Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana) Irina Holca Chapter Five: The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga Carmen S punaru T mä Part II: The De-formed Body Chapter Six: The Body in Motion in But : Passivity and Transformation in the Flesh Caitlin Coker Chapter Seven: Senility and the Body: Care and Gender in Contemporary Japanese Literature Shun Izutani Chapter Eight: The Cared for Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Rieko Matsuura's Kenshin Kayo Takeuchi Chapter Nine: Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni Piasu Emerald L. King Chapter Ten: Literature as Social Activism and Reconciliation: Survivors' Writing and the Meaning of Hansen's Disease in Japan after 1950 Kathryn Tanaka Chapter Eleven: The Bald and the Beautiful: Perspectives on Baldness in Contemporary Japan Adrian O. T mä Part III: The Conformed Body Chapter Twelve: The Asian Body in the North American Context: Visual and Literary Racialization Alina E. Anton Chapter Thirteen: Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as 'Ground Zero' Jennifer Coates Chapter Fourteen: The Confined Body in Ogawa Y ko's The Ring Finger: A Beguiling Journey towards "Self-discovery" Kayo Sasao Chapter Fifteen: Bodies of Onna-no-ko: The Case of a Sex Establishment in Tokyo, Japan Yoko Kumada
Part I: The Performed Body Chapter One: A Japanese Fox in a Woman's Body: Shifting Performances of Femininity in Kij Johnson's Reworking of Konjaku Monogatari Luciana Cardi Chapter Two: Call Me a Dog. Feeling (Inugami) Possession in Contemporary Tokushima Prefecture Andrea De Antoni Chapter Three: Kabuki: Performance of Gendered Bodies Galia Todorova Gabrovska Chapter Four: Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a Man's Heart Goes through His Stomach: Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana) Irina Holca Chapter Five: The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga Carmen S punaru T mä Part II: The De-formed Body Chapter Six: The Body in Motion in But : Passivity and Transformation in the Flesh Caitlin Coker Chapter Seven: Senility and the Body: Care and Gender in Contemporary Japanese Literature Shun Izutani Chapter Eight: The Cared for Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Rieko Matsuura's Kenshin Kayo Takeuchi Chapter Nine: Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni Piasu Emerald L. King Chapter Ten: Literature as Social Activism and Reconciliation: Survivors' Writing and the Meaning of Hansen's Disease in Japan after 1950 Kathryn Tanaka Chapter Eleven: The Bald and the Beautiful: Perspectives on Baldness in Contemporary Japan Adrian O. T mä Part III: The Conformed Body Chapter Twelve: The Asian Body in the North American Context: Visual and Literary Racialization Alina E. Anton Chapter Thirteen: Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as 'Ground Zero' Jennifer Coates Chapter Fourteen: The Confined Body in Ogawa Y ko's The Ring Finger: A Beguiling Journey towards "Self-discovery" Kayo Sasao Chapter Fifteen: Bodies of Onna-no-ko: The Case of a Sex Establishment in Tokyo, Japan Yoko Kumada
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