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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: East Asian Popular Culture
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This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular
culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the
new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters
in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games,
offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring
trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the
monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating
shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female
ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public
violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body
in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid
discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan,
Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine
as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting
configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel
possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a
period marked by dramatic change.
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