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Theatricalities of Power - The Cultural Politics of Noh (Hardcover)
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Theatricalities of Power - The Cultural Politics of Noh (Hardcover)
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Through an extended reading of the noh play "Aoi ne Ue," as well as
briefer examinations of several other plays, "Theatricalities of
Power" sheds new light on the circulation of power and desire in
the middle and late medieval periods in Japan. The author argues
that, rather than simply mirroring the sociopolitical contexts in
which they were performed, these plays constituted an active,
productive force in the theater of the medieval cultural imaginary
by engaging specific sociopolitical issues and problems.
Neither reducing noh to its theatrical conventions nor abstracting
its style and poetics from its performativity, the book reads noh
differently, opening the performance text to its historically
specific contexts. It aims not merely to recount the history "of"
noh, but to investigate the history "in" noh, to explore "the
indecision as to the limit" between the performance text of noh and
its other.
The author approaches noh as a site of conflict framed by the
mechanisms of patronage within which poetic, religious, political,
and economic discourses are brought together in complex and
innovative ways. He brings to the fore the "micropolitics of
culture" operative in noh by ferreting out the power relations and
tensions at play between noh texts and their institutions of
support and by opening noh to extradramatic linkages with
contemporaneous figurations of authority, change in legal codes,
and sexual politics.
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