Fwd: Special Issue of Women & Performance

[Aaron Gerow]

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From: Steven Brown <stb at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject: Special Issue of Women & Performance

Please excuse the crossposting.  The editors of the feminist journal Women
& Performance are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue
devoted to the topic of women in the history of Japanese forms of
theatricality (see table of contents below).  "Performing Japanese Women"
(vol. 12, no. 1, issue 23 (2001), 267 pages) may be purchased online at
http://www.womenandperformance.org/article.php?sid=26

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu,

Steven Brown


Table of Contents
Introduction: Other Histories of Japanese Performance  -  Steven
T. BROWN

Introduction: Contrasting Voices  -  Sara JANSEN


Articles
Interactive Narrators and Performative Readers: Gendered
Interfacing
in Heian Narratives  -  Lynne K. MIYAKE

Performing Sinners: The Asobi and the Buddhist Discourse of
sumi  -
Terry KAWASHIMA

Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of
Kumano
and Seiganji  -  R. Keller KIMBROUGH

Performing the Courtesan: In Search of Ghosts at Zuishin-in Letter
Mound  -  Sarah M. STRONG

Challenging the Old Men: A Brief History of Women in Noh
heater  -
Eric C. RATH

Reflections of Terute: Searching for a Hidden
haman-Entertainer  -
Susan MATISOFF

"Nostalgia" or "Newness": Nihon Buyo? in the United States  -
Barbara SELLERS-YOUNG

The Limits of Speech: Kishida Rio's Thread Hell  -  TONOOKA Naomi

The Journey Continues: Shiraishi Kayoko tells One Hundred
tories  -
Loren EDELSON

Hitsujiya Shirotama on Herself and Yubiwa Hotel: An interview by
Naito Mao and Hibino Kei  -  Translated, and with an introduction
by
NAITO Mao

Fleeting Moments: The Vanishing Acts of Phantom Women in the
Performances of Dumb Type  -  Katherine MEZUR

The Meat Manifesto: Ruth Ozeki's Performative Poetics  -  Nina
CORNYETZ


Reviews
Kei Takei, The Absence of Izanagi  -  Susan TENNERIELLO
Otome Bunraku Performances  -  Jean Whaley WILLIAMS
Kishida Rio, Towa--Part I--Kanojo (Eternity--Part I--She)  -
Colleen LANKI
Kazuko Hohki, Toothless  -  Margaret COLDIRON
Nagai Ai, Hagi-ke no San-Shimai (Three Sisters of the Hagi
amily)  -
MATSUOKA Kazuko
A. Kimi Coaldrake, Women's Gidayuu and the Japanese Theatre
Tradition
-  Loren EDELSON
Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular
Culture
in Modern Japan  -  Jonah SALZ
David G. Goodman, Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde  -
John K. GILLESPIE
Dorinne Kondo, About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and
heater  -
Janet GOFF
Briefly Noted  -  Loren EDELSON
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Steven T. Brown
Dept. Head of East Asian Languages & Literatures
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Popular Culture, &
Critical Theory
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1248

Email:  stb at oregon.uoregon.edu
Website:  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~eall/EALLBrown.html
Fax:  (541) 346-0260
Tel.:  (541) 346-4016


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