Ebook: Crucible bodies : postwar Japanese performance from Brecht to the new millennium
Author: Tadashi Uchino.
- Series: Enactments, Enactments.
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Seagull Books
- City: London ; New York
- Language: English
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'Crucible Bodies' is a study of Japanese performance culture. It covers a range of historical and theoretical topics, from Brecht in Japan to 'children's' bodies in postmodern Japanese performances, from the notion of beauty in contemporary cultural theory to practical and theoretical readings of recent intercultural performances.
Political displacements : towards historicizing Brecht in Japan, 1932-98 --
Images of Armageddon : Japan's 1980s' theatre culture --
From 'beautiful' to 'cute' : a note on beauty in modern and postmodern Japan --
Deconstructing 'Japaneseness' : towards articulating locality and hybridity in contemporary Japanese performance --
Playing betwixt and between : intercultural performance in the age of globalization --
Fictional body versus junk body : thinking through the performing body in contemporary Japan, or why is ancient Greek drama still produced? --
Pop, postmodernism and junk : Murakami Takashi and 'J' theatre --
Globality's children : the 'child's' body as a strategy of flatness in performance --
Nationalism, intra-nationalism : re-imagining the boundary --
Mapping/zapping 'J' theatre at the moment --
Miyazawa Akio after 9/11 : physical dementia and undoing history in the 'J' locality --
Epilogue : interculturalism revisited after 9/11.