[DOC] Morrer De Velho (Portuguese Edition) by Ricardo Teixeira at Arts-Photography

Description

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan examines how the performing arts; and the performing body specifically; have shaped and been shaped by the political and historical conditions experienced in Japan during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. This study of original and secondary materials from the fields of theatre; dance; performance art; film and poetry; probes the interrelationship that exists between the body and the nation-state. Important artistic works; such as Ankoku Butoh (dance of darkness) and its subsequent re-interpretation by a leading political performance company Gekidan Kaitaisha (theatre of deconstruction); are analysed using ethnographic; historical and theoretical modes. This approach reveals the nuanced and prolonged effects of military; cultural and political occupation in Japan over a duration of dramatic change.Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan explores issues of discrimination; marginality; trauma; memory and the mediation of history in a ground-breaking work that will be of great significance to anyone interested in the symbiosis of culture and conflict.