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Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai - Softcover

Foster, Michael Dylan Dylan

 
9780520253629: Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520253620 ISBN 13: 9780520253629
Verlag: University of California Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yôkai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms—and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Dylan Foster is Assistant Professor of Folklore and East Asian Cultures at Indiana University.

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"At once playful and profound, scholarly and scintillating, Pandemonium and Parade not only records but also enacts the uncanny presence of yokai in Japanese history. Seen through the lens of yokai, this book richly considers how the passing of time evokes both awe and anxiety."—Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

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"At once playful and profound, scholarly and scintillating, Pandemonium and Parade not only records but also enacts the uncanny presence of yokai in Japanese history. Seen through the lens of yokai, this book richly considers how the passing of time evokes both awe and anxiety." Anne Allison, author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520253620
ISBN 13 
9780520253629
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
310
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