Presents the performance art 'butoh' as an evolving artistic bodily response to the Japanese society of the 1960s-1980s - a society characterized by conflict and proliferating information. BRUCE BAIRD Assistant Professor of Asian Language & Literature at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. INDICE: Introduction: And, And, And - Outline of the Book - Forbidden Eros and Evading Force: Hijikata's Early Years - A Story of Dances that Sustain Enigma - Pivoting Panels and Slashing Space: Rebellion and Identity - My Mother Tied Me on Her Back: Story of Smallpox - The Possibility Body: Embodying the Other, Negotiating the World - Metaphorical Miscegenation in Memoirs: Hijikata Tatsumi in the Information Age - Epilogue: The Emaciated Body in the World -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-12040-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 310
- Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés