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Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai: By Foster...
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- ISBN
- 0520253620
- EAN
- 9780520253629
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Pandemonium and Parade : Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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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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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520253620
ISBN-13
9780520253629
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66186620
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Pandemonium and Parade : Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gr340.F67 2009
Reviews
This outstanding volume is a welcome addition to English-language resources on Japan's folk culture. Showing familiarity with Japanese scholarship and vernacular culture, Pandemonium and Parade finds the rationale for continuing interest in the y_kai world in everyday needs and concerns., A provocative addition to the small body of scholarship in English on monsters, the mysterious, and the supernatural in Japan from the early modern period to the present. This timely book . . . offers English readers their first sustained consideration of yõkai . . . from the perspectives of folklore studies and anthropology. Engagingly written from its touching preface to its last sentence, Pandemonium and Parade draws on and converses with an extensive body of Japanese scholarship on yõkai ., "Whoever thinks that a scholarly book cannot be "fun" has not yet read Michael Foster's Pandemonium and Parade . His work constitutes a rollicking exploration of the seventeenth- through twentieth-century worlds of y_kai , a broadly inclusive term for the phantasmagoria of monsters, ghosts, mysterious apparitions, and inexplicable phenomena that have animated the Japanese cultural landscape for much of the past thousand years. Foster's book is thoughtfully conceived and carefully researched, and it is written in a graceful, occasionally journalistic style that is both suitable to its subject and a pleasure to read.", _One of the most theoretically nuanced and interesting interpretations of Japan_s experience of modernity and post-modernity . . . extremely readable._, Rich and refreshing . . . engaging and spiritedly written . . . Foster's writing and attitude toward his topic gracefully embrace the two poles of the scholarly and the ludic that he attributes to y_kai discourse through the ages.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2010
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Supernatural
Lccn
2007-050923
Dewey Decimal
398/.450952
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
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