Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

by Miri Nakamura

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 until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674504321
• ISBN13: 9780674504325
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.4"