Contesting the myths of samurai baseball : cultural representations of Japan's national pastime /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Keaveney, Christopher T. (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Baseball > Japan > History. Baseball > Social aspects > Japan. Baseball films > Japan > History and criticism. Baseball in literature > History and criticism. Bushido > Japan. Popular culture > Study and teaching > Japan. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction : myths of Japanese baseball and the game's cultural representations
Samurai baseball : the popular press and the making of a national pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan
Portrait of the artist as Yakyū Seinen : Masaoka Shiki and the poetry of baseball
Coming home : portraying Japanese baseball on the silver screen
The one constant : the literature of nostalgia and catharsis in postwar Japanese baseball fiction
Game on : encounters with the magic of baseball in Japanese postmodern fiction
Happy medium : re-envisioning the hero in Japanese baseball manga
Epilogue : the enduring cultural appeal of baseball in Japan
Appendix : glossary of selected terms in Japanese.