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Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies
Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness
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This book is a feminist reading of the history of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theater. It is not limited to a "theater arts" focus, rather it is a mapping and close analysis of transformative genders through several historical periods in Japan (the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries). In particular, the work focuses on undoing of binary genders, the sensual ambiguity of boy-ness, youth, and female-likeness and the cultural development of the aesthetics of eroticism, nostalgia, and cruelty based in female-like transformative gender acts. The work is also a visual cultures study as it draws not only on literary sources but also prints, photographs, film, and video documentation.
Palgrave Macmillan; November 2005
334 pages; ISBN 9781403979131
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334 pages; ISBN 9781403979131
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Subject categories
- Academic > Literature > Drama > Special types > Special regions or countries
- Academic > Performing Arts > Special regions or countries > Japan
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Criticism
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History
- Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural
- Performing Arts > Theater
- Social Science > Gender Studies
- Social Science > Feminism & Feminist Theory
- History > Japan
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1403979138
9781403967121
9781403979131