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Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness 2005 Edition
Contributor(s): Mezur, K. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1403967121     ISBN-13: 9781403967121
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE: $52.24  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2006
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- History | Asia - Japan
Dewey: 792.095
LCCN: 2005042971
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.7" L (1.25 lbs) 319 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - Japanese
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre. It is not limited to a 'theatre 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).
 
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