Unspeakable Acts : : The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan / / 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 the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; color & b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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