Monstrous bodies : the rise of the uncanny in modern Japan /

"Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters--doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations--bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868-1912) up unti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nakamura, Miri, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, [2015]
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 382.
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Table of Contents:
  • The invisible monster : translating hygiene into supernatural language
  • Colonial doubles in Edogawa Ranpo's "Twins"
  • Colonial doubles : doppelgänger in Dogura Magura
  • Robot babies : artificial reproduction
  • Conclusion : uncanny modernity.