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The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture (East Asian Popular Culture)
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About The Monstrous-Feminine In Contemporary Japanese
Product Description This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shōjo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change. Review “Covering material from novels to manga to video games, this book is wide-ranging, thorough and profound in its analytical technique, and substantial in its interpretations of the social critiques of its primary texts. Raechel Dumas provides a solid contextualisation of the material she covers, situating the monstrous-feminine in the political and economic conditions of contemporary Japan. This contextualisation allows Dumas to demonstrate how these texts critique Japan by highlighting the changing value systems at play, which threaten notions of social stability and traditional ideology.” (Timothy Iles, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria, Canada) About the Author Raechel Dumas is Assistant Professor of Humanities at San Diego State University, USA.
