Cultural responses to occupation in Japan : the performing body during and after the Cold War
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Cultural responses to occupation in Japan : the performing body during and after the Cold War
(War, culture and society)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
- : HB
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-241) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts, and the performing body specifically, have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre, dance, performance art, film and poetry, probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works, such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction), are analysed using ethnographic, historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military, cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change.
Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination, marginality, trauma, memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. An Outline of Japan's Modern Nation-State Formation
2. Occupied Bodies: Aesthetic Responses in New Japan
3. The Performing Body in a Bicephalous State: Ankoku Butoh in Context
4. An Aesthetic Analysis of Ankoku Butoh
5. The Politics of Form in Post-Ankoku Butoh: (Not) A Dance of the Nation State
6. Gekidan Kaitaisha: Growing the Seeds of Butoh
7. Kaitaisha in Social Context: Otaku and Military-Media-Technologies
8. Occupied bodies in the Twenty-First Century: Continuing the Butoh Legacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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