| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Performing Terayama/Terayama performing. Cultural outlaw in a time of chaos ; Masks and mothers: staging the inner self ; Outcasts and aliens: staging the outer self ; Tombstones carved only of words. -- pt. 2. Translations. The hunchback of Aomori ; La Marie-vison (translated by Don Kenny) ; Heretics ; Excerpts from The labyrinth and the Dead Sea: my theatre |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and indexes |
| Notes |
Some plays by Terayama Shūji translated from Japanese |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983.
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Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983 |
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Theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
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Theater
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Terayama, Shūji, 1936-1983.
Plays. Selections. English
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| LC no. |
2005010224 |
| ISBN |
9780824865436 |
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082486543X |
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