{"product_id":"forms-of-the-body-in-contemporary-japanese-society-literature-and-culture-9781793623898","title":"Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 Săpunaru Tămaş illuminate in their exploration of the varying representations of the body across contemporary Japanese literature, performance, and popular culture. -- Hideto Tsuboi, International Research Center for Japanese Studies\u003cbr\u003eThis edited volume is a fresh and very rich addition to our understanding of a crucial topic—the body—as thought, felt, and acted by contemporary Japanese. It will enrich the field beyond Japanese studies, since it brings together two important elements; in addition to familiar names in Japanese studies, the editors—both Romanians with Ph.D.s from Japanese universities—have included authors from highly diverse backgrounds, and their ‘ethnographies’ engage with literature, performing arts, and everyday behaviors, rather than only social science materials. -- Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, University of Wisconsin\u003cbr\u003eThis is a refreshing collection of articles addressing the subject of the body from a variety of appealingly eclectic angles. Drawing on less well-known insights gathered by social and cultural anthropologists as well as literature scholars, the chapters offer surprise after surprise—approaches that bewilder the boundaries between human, animal, and spirit, and that amuse as well as inform. This is highly recommended for anyone interested in learning more about Japan's cultural creativity. -- Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Performed Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: A Japanese Fox in a Woman’s Body: Shifting Performances of Femininity in Kij Johnson’s Reworking of Konjaku Monogatari\u003cbr\u003eLuciana Cardi \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: Call Me a Dog. Feeling (Inugami) Possession in Contemporary Tokushima Prefecture\u003cbr\u003eAndrea De Antoni \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: Kabuki: Performance of Gendered Bodies\u003cbr\u003eGalia Todorova Gabrovska \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Home Is Where Mother Is, and the Way to a Man’s Heart Goes through His Stomach: Bodies in the Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana) \u003cbr\u003eIrina Holca \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: The Body as Canvas: Osaka Drag Queens from Kabuki to Lady Gaga\u003cbr\u003eCarmen Săpunaru Tămaș \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The De-formed Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: The Body in Motion in Butō: Passivity and Transformation in the Flesh\u003cbr\u003eCaitlin Coker \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Senility and the Body: Care and Gender in Contemporary Japanese Literature\u003cbr\u003eShun Izutani \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: The Cared for Dog and the Caring Dog: Ethical Possibilities in Rieko Matsuura’s Kenshin\u003cbr\u003eKayo Takeuchi \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Pricking Pain Surrounds Us: Restraining, Shaping, and Taming the Body in Hebi ni Piasu\u003cbr\u003eEmerald L. King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: Literature as Social Activism and Reconciliation: Survivors’ Writing and the Meaning of Hansen’s Disease in Japan after 1950\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Tanaka \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: The Bald and the Beautiful: Perspectives on Baldness in Contemporary Japan\u003cbr\u003eAdrian O. Tămaș \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Conformed Body\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: The Asian Body in the North American Context: Visual and Literary Racialization\u003cbr\u003eAlina E. Anton \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen: Bodies in the Dark: The Postwar Cinema Audience and the Body as ‘Ground Zero’\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Coates \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fourteen: The Confined Body in Ogawa Yōko’s The Ring Finger: A Beguiling Journey towards “Self-discovery”\u003cbr\u003eKayo Sasao \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Fifteen: Bodies of Onna-no-ko: The Case of a Sex Establishment in Tokyo, Japan\u003cbr\u003eYoko Kumada","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042649571671,"sku":"9781793623898","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793623898.jpg?v=1750955009","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forms-of-the-body-in-contemporary-japanese-society-literature-and-culture-9781793623898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}