Modern Japanese theatre and performance
By: edited by David Jortner, Keiko McDonald, and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Contributors: Jortner, David, 1971-; McDonald, Keiko I.; Wetmore, Kevin J., 1969-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Experimental theater -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Japanese drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modern Japanese theatre (revisited) / David Jortner; title: Why did Sewamono not grow into modern realist theatre? / Megumi Inoue; title: The rhetoric of the real / M. Cody Poulton; title: Moment(um) of memory : metapatterns in Japanese theatre since the 1960s / John Gillespie; title: The quest for salvation in Japan's modern history : four plays by Akimoto Matsuyo / David Goodman; title: Poison women and national identity in postwar Japanese performance / Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei; title: Senda Koreya and the Tenko paradigm / John D. Swain; title: Structureless in structure : the choreographic tectonics of Hijikata Tatsumi's Buto / Bruce Baird; title: Terayama in Amsterdam and the internationalization of experimental theatre / Stephen Clark; title: Super-Kyogen : radically traditional utopian comedies / Jonah Salz; title: Classical Japanese performance in a contemporary context : a traditional strategy of juxtaposition / Zvika Serper; title: Illegitimate child of Shingeki : Soganoya Gokuro and his nonkina tosan (easygoing daddy) / Yoshiko Fukushima; title: Reflections of and on the times : Morimoto Kaoru's A woman's life / Guohe Zheng; title: Steeplechase : Mishima Yukio's only original modern No play / Laurence Kominz; title: "Destroying the audience's alibi" : empathy and ethics in Abe Kobo's Mihitsu no koi / Margaret Key; title: Divine memory and abject reality : Miyagi Satoshi's Tenshu monogatari and Simizu Shinjin's Bye bye : the new primitive / Carol Martin; title: From Scaretto to Kaze to Tomo ni Sarinu : musical adaptations of Gone with the wind in Japan / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.; title: Mutsugoro (Mudskippers) / Umehara Takeshi, translated by Jonah Salz and Tomoko Onabe; title: Introduction by Jonah Salz.