Forms of the body in contemporary Japanese society, literature, and culture / Edited by Irina Holca and Carmen Săpunaru Tămaş.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holca, Irina, editor.

Tămaş, Carmen Săpunaru, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--Japan.

Human body.

Manners and customs.

Human body--Social aspects.

Japan--Social life and customs--21st century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xvi, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 / Luciana Cardi

2. Call Me a Dog: Feeling (Inugami) Possession in Contemporary Tokushima Prefecture / Andrea De Antoni

3. Kabuki: Performance of Gendered Bodies / Galia Gabrovska

4. Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana): Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a Man's Heart Goes through His Stomach / Irina Holca

5. The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga / Carmen Sdpunaru Tdmas

pt. II THE DE-FORMED BODY

6. The Body in Motion in Buto: Passivity and Transformation in the Flesh / Caitlin C. Coker

7. Senility and the Body: Care and Gender in Contemporary Japanese Literature / Izutani Shun

8. The Cared-For Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Matsuura Rieko's Kenshin (The Dog's Body) / Kayo Takeuchi

9. Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni Piasu / Emerald L. King

10. Literature as Social Activism and Reconciliation: Survivors' Writing and the Meaning of Hansen's Disease in Japan / Kathryn M. Tanaka

11. The Bald and the Beautiful: Perspectives on Baldness in Contemporary Japan / Adrian O. Tdmas

pt. III THE CONFORMED BODY

12. The Asian Body in North American Context: Visual and Literary Racialization / Alina E. Anton

13. Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as "Ground Zero" / Jennifer Coates

14. The Confined Body in Ogawa Yoko's The Ring Finger. A Beguiling Journey toward "Self-Discovery" / Kayo Sasao

15. Bodies of Onna-no-ko: The Case of a Sex Establishment in Tokyo, Japan / Yoko Kumada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Holca, Irina. Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture.

ISBN:

9781793623874

1793623872

OCLC:

1136873279