Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies
Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies
副标题: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness
ISBN: 9781403967121
作者: K·Mezur
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan
出版年: 2005-11-5
页数: 319
定价: USD 110.00
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
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.