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Unspeakable Acts : The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : color & b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824827960
  • 9780824865436
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.625 22
LOC classification:
  • PL862.E7 Z854 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Japanese Usage -- Introduction -- Part 1. Performing Terayama Terayama Performing -- 1. Cultural Outlaw in a Time of Chaos -- 2. Masks and Mothers -- 3. Outcasts and Aliens -- 4. Tombstones Carved Only of Words -- Part 2. Translations -- The Hunchback of Aomori -- La Marie-Vision (translated by Don Kenny) -- Heretics -- Excerpts from The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea: My Theatre -- Works Cited and Selected Bibliography -- Index to Part 1 -- Index to Excerpts from: The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea -- About the Author
Summary: Terayama Shûji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Japanese Usage -- Introduction -- Part 1. Performing Terayama Terayama Performing -- 1. Cultural Outlaw in a Time of Chaos -- 2. Masks and Mothers -- 3. Outcasts and Aliens -- 4. Tombstones Carved Only of Words -- Part 2. Translations -- The Hunchback of Aomori -- La Marie-Vision (translated by Don Kenny) -- Heretics -- Excerpts from The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea: My Theatre -- Works Cited and Selected Bibliography -- Index to Part 1 -- Index to Excerpts from: The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea -- About the Author

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Terayama Shûji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)