Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture

Irina Holca, Carmen Sapunaru Tamas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793623874 (ISBN)

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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.

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.

Irina Holca is associate professor at the University of Tokyo. Carmen Sapunaru Tama? is associate professor at the University of Hyogo.

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 Sapunaru Tama?

Part II: The De-formed Body
Chapter Six: The Body in Motion in Buto: 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 S

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Alina E. Anton, Luciana Cardi, Jennifer Coates
Zusatzinfo	4 b/w illustrations; 7 b/w photos; 4 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 231 mm
Gewicht	603 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781793623874 / 9781793623874
Zustand	Neuware