Postgender : gender, sexuality and performativity in Japanese culture / edited by Ayelet Zohar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zohar, Ayelet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Japan.

Performing arts.

Art and society.

Japan.

Sex role in art.

Sex in art.

Sexual orientation in art.

Art and society--Japan.

Physical Description:

lvi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Summary:

Postgender: Gender, Sexuality and Perforemativity in Japanese Culture is a collection of articles by some leading researchers in the field of gender studies, visual culture and performance studies in Japan. Articles in this volume discuss fundamental issues in relation to the body, sexuality, gender, and their respective representations in the visual field. The volume contain texts considering gender and temporality in Takashi Murakami's superflat dimension; gender issues in relation to male pregnancy, motherhood and the family as represented in Hiroko Okada, Mako idemitsu, Miwako Ishiuchi and Yasumasa Morimura's works; sexual identity of the otaku, and sexual representations in manga and anime; and, sexual organs depictions in contemporary Japanese art and photography of Yayoi Kusama, Ryudai Takano, Yurie Nagashima, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Makoto Saito's advertisements. This title also includes: literary representations of hermaphrodites in Tokuda Shusei's Arakure and fictional genders in Kachikujin yapu; history of prostitution and Bubu de la Madeliene and Yoshiko Shimada's performance art; a Buddhist reading of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece; gender passing and masquerade in Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh; and, gender issues in Duras/ Rennais' Hiroshima mon amour. Participants include some leading researchers and curators like Jennifer Robertson, Michiko Kasahara, Tamaki Saito, Maki Isaka and Bracha Ettinger and others.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section I Imagined Histories, Genders and Representations

ch. One Relentless Presentism: Life and Art in the Superflat Dimension / Jennifer Robertson

ch. Two Images of Onnagata: Complicating the Binarisms, Unraveling the Labyrinth / Maki Isaka

Section II Re-Gendered Fantasies

ch. Three Gender Issues in Contemporary Japanese Art / Michiko Kasahara

ch. Four Rewriting History: The Intoxicating Hierarchies of Kachikujin yapu / Jason Herlands

Section III Intricating Sexualities

ch. Five Performing the Hermaphrodite: Counter-Discourse to Gender Dimorphism in Tokuda Shusei's Arakure (Rough Living, 1915) / Leslie Winston

ch. Six Vagina Dialogues: The Love Mother Earth Advertisement by Makoto Saito, 2001 / Ory Bartal

ch. Seven The Multiplicity of the Phallus: Becoming and Repetition / Ayelet Zohar

ch. Eight The Asymmetry of Masculine/Feminine Otaku Sexuality: Moe, Yaoi and Phallic Girls / Tamaki Saito

ch. Nine The Pregnant Man: Fiction or Future Reality? / Ayelet Zohar

Section IV Gender Performativity and Performing Arts

ch. Ten Transcending Bodies: Dancing Gender(s) in Butoh / Kinneret Noy

ch. Eleven Yoko Ono and the Poetics of the Vanishing Gift / Sayumi Takahashi Harb

ch. Twelve Art, Politics and Prostitution in Occupied/Contemporary Japan: The Voice of a Sex Worker / Ayala Klemperer-Markman

ch. Thirteen Affectuous Encounters: Feminine-Matrixial Encounters in Duras/Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour / Kyoko Gardiner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Postgender.

ISBN:

9781443809900

144380990X

OCLC:

428370864

Publisher Number:

99986924679