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Article: Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays.(Book Review)
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- Asian Theatre Journal
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- March 22, 2004
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By Etsuko Terasaki. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 38. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2002. xvii + 329 pp. $60
As the stream of recent publications demonstrates, Western scholars' interest in Japan's old art of no seems unbroken. This interest is not only with no as a living stage art but also with the complexity and richness of the texts, which invite fresh approaches inspired by new hermeneutic methods. Now we have one more book on the subject. Its fashionable tide echoes trendy discourses--feminist, performative, or psychoanalytic--and its subtitle may confuse the reader with its list of heterogeneous ...