Series |
Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Volume 6 | Edited book | Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan
Death and Desire in Contemporary Japan
Representing, Practicing, Performing
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Andrea De Antoni - Ritsumeikan University, Japan - email
- Massimo Raveri - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
The title of this volume refers to the Buddhist concepts of suffering, impermanence and dependent origination, which link the ideas of Death and Desire. This book stems from a research conducted in the last few years at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, supported by the Japan Foundation. A great deal of work has been done by scholars in various disciplines about dying in Japan, but research has tended to focus on the practices through which death is settled and institutionalised. Yet, what about untamed and unsettled death? What about the cases in which death cannot be successfully coped with by ritual means? What happens if institutions and discourses are not enough to tame it? What about the cases in which unsettled death suddenly intrudes the social? What are the forms it takes and the consequences it has in the social? These are the questions that the volume addresses, by enmeshing representations, practices and performing arts, through contributions that rely on approaches from different disciplines. Each of them analyses one of the multiple and fragmented possibilities in which untamed death can tame the social.
Keywords Mugen noh • Body • Dark Tourism • Biyanlu • Corporeality • Identity Quest • Literary Theory • Anti-Dance • Nagasaki • Hiroshima • Tsukamoto Shin’ya • Rokugatsu no hebi • Plato • Lacan • Desire • Leo Tolstoy • Ghosts • Dream • Acephale • Female Desire • Storytelling • England • Personhood • Vladimir Jankélévitch • Atomic Bomb • Cross-Gendered Performance • Matsushita Denki • Butō • Selfhood • Company’s Founder • Memory • Unnatural • Hijikata Tatsumi • Actor Network • Natural • Shiga Naoya • Witness Literature • Corpse • Dōjōji • Haunting • Mujō • Shibusawa Tatsuhiko • Izutsu • Dogen • Sociology • Psychoanalysis • Body and Object • Edgar Morin • Sony • Cinema • Distance • Company-sponsored Funeral • Japan • Coroners • Death • Philosophy of Death • Kinosaki nite • Shiseikan • Autopsy • Salvation • Eroticism
Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-151-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-151-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-150-8 | Published May 31, 2017 | Language en, it
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Contents
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The Magnified Body of Survival
Tracing Communication Paradigms in Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Storytelling
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A Dream to Challenge the ‘World of Dreams’
Evanescence and Desire in Ano ie (1953) by Enchi Fumiko
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The Funeral in Contemporary Japanese Society
The Company-sponsored Funeral of the Founder. Arrangement and Creation of the Most Important Funeral Service in the Company’s History
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Lust for Death
Dark Tourism, Creation and Consumption of Haunted Places in Contemporary Kyoto
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Negotiating the Unusual, Classifying the Unnatural
The Reporting and Investigation of Medical-related Deaths in England and Japan
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Discourses on Death-and-Life in Modern Japan and the Desire behind Them
Quest for the New Identity among Modern Japanese Elites
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“Each Death is Unique”
Beyond Epistemic Transfiguration in Thanatology
Introduction
