Unspeakable Acts : : The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan / / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Sorgenfrei, Carol Fisher,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; color & b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Japanese Usage --; Introduction --; Part 1. Performing Terayama Terayama Performing --; 1. Cultural Outlaw in a Time of Chaos --; 2. Masks and Mothers --; 3. Outcasts and Aliens --; 4. Tombstones Carved Only of Words --; Part 2. Translations --; The Hunchback of Aomori --; La Marie-Vision (translated by Don Kenny) --; Heretics --; Excerpts from The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea: My Theatre --; Works Cited and Selected Bibliography --; Index to Part 1 --; Index to Excerpts from: The Labyrinth and the Dead Sea --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824865436; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824865436
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei.

Terayama Shûji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.