Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was one of postwar Japan's most gifted and controversial playwrights/directors. Since his death more than twenty years ago, he has been transformed into a cult hero in Japan. Despite this notoriety, Unspeakable Acts is the first book in any language to analyze the theater of Terayama in depth. It interrogates postwar Japanese culture and theater through the creative work of this unique yet emblematic artist. By situating Terayama in his historical milieu and by using tools derived from Japanese and Western theories of psychoanalysis, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and aesthetics, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei has woven a sophisticated and provocative study.
- ISBN10 0824827961
- ISBN13 9780824827960
- Publish Date 31 July 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 340
- Language English