Unspeakable acts : the avant-garde theatre of Terayama Shūji and postwar Japan /
Terayama Shûji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the the...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2005.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Performing Terayama/Terayama performing. Cultural outlaw in a time of chaos ; Masks and mothers: staging the inner self ; Outcasts and aliens: staging the outer self ; Tombstones carved only of words.
- pt. 2. Translations. The hunchback of Aomori ; La Marie-vison (translated by Don Kenny) ; Heretics ; Excerpts from The labyrinth and the Dead Sea: my theatre.
