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Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan (Hardcover)
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Hardcover: 335 pages
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (31 Jul 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0824827961
ISBN-13: 978-0824827960
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 x 3 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 881,092 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Terayama Shuji (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 theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.