Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2020-05-21
Mått: 160 x 231 x 24 mm
Vikt: 603 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 316
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781793623874

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

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The body functions not only as a ground for the unique particularities of individual subjectivity, but also as a model of universality that mirrors the community and the society at large. Through this connection between the individual and the whole, the body thereby gives physical shape to the universal order and its microcosmos, while likewise serving in modern society as the political “field” through which the conflicts and contradictions between the two become visible. It is the nature of this “field” of body politics that Irina Holca and Carmen Sapunaru Tamas illuminate in their exploration of the varying representations of the body across contemporary Japanese literature, performance, and popular culture.

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