Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

#382 of 61 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

2015 • 192 pages

Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.

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#382 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 61-book series with 61 released primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, David C. Cole, and Yung Chul Park.