Ambiguous bodies
Subtitle: reading the grotesque in Japanese setsuwa tales
By: Michelle Osterfeld Li.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780804759755
Subjects: Folk literature, Japanese -- History and criticism; Tales -- Japan -- History and criticism; Japanese literature -- To 1600 -- History and criticism; Grotesque in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setsuwa and the grotesque; title: Fantastic detached body parts; title: Curious sexual encounters; title: Who eats whom? : flesh-eating demons and political power struggles; title: The feminization of demons; title: Animal spirits.