Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales by Michelle Li

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales

Michelle Li

336 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction mysterious slow-paced
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Ambiguous Bodies draws from theories of the grotesque to examine many of the strange and extraordinary creatures and phenomena in the premodern Japanese tales called setsuwa. Grotesque representations in general typically direct our attention to u...

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