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Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies : devising Kabuki female-likeness /
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 per...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781403979131 1403979138 128136441X 9781281364418 9781403967121 1403967121 |
| Acceso: | University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus. |