Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times by Miriam Silverberg

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

Asia Pacific Modern

Miriam Silverberg

388 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ...

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