Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History by Miller, Laura

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520297722)

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Format: Hardcover
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Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History by Miller, Laura

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History

$95.00
Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History by Miller, Laura

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.


Author: Laura Miller
ISBN-10: 0520297725
ISBN-13: 9780520297722
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2018
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

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Choice 01/01/2019
By Laura Miller
By Laura Miller
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Laura Miller is the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she teaches courses and does research on Japan.

Rebecca Copeland is Professor of Japanese Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where her research and teaching focus on modern women writers, mystery fiction, gender, and translation studies.

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