Pandemonium and Parade

Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yokai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms - and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-11-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520253629

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Michael Dylan Foster is Assistant Professor of Folklore and East Asian Cultures at Indiana University.

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“A provocative addition to the small body of scholarship in English on monsters, the mysterious, and the supernatural in Japan from the early modern period to the present. This timely book . . . offers English readers their first sustained consideration of yõkai . . . from the perspectives of folklore studies and anthropology. Engagingly written from its touching preface to its last sentence, Pandemonium and Parade draws on and converses with an extensive body of Japanese scholarship on yõkai."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index