基本説明
This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theatre. The work is also a visual cultures study as it draws not only on literary sources, but also prints, photogaphs, film, and video documentation.
Full Description
This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre. It is not limited to a 'theatre 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).
Contents
Transforming Genders Theory into Performance Precursors and Unruly Vanguards Star Designing and Myth Making Exaggeration, Disintegration, and Reformation The Aesthetics of Female-Likeness The International Body Performing Gender Role Types Towards a New Alchemy of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
