Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
A Japanese Literature, History, Asian Literature book. It is a tragedy that Professor Silverberg was battling illness while finishing this book;...
This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from this era to capture the spirit, textures, and language of a time when the media reached all classes, connecting the rural social order to urban mores. Employing the concept of montage as a metaphor that informed the organization of Japanese mass culture during the 1920s and 1930s, Silverberg challenges the erasure of Japanese colonialism and its legacies. She evokes vivid images from daily life during the 1920s and 1930s, including details about food, housing, fashion, modes of popular entertainment, and attitudes toward sexuality. Her innovative study demonstrates how new public spaces, new relationships within the family, and an ironic sensibility expressed the attitude...
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- Pages: 388 pages
- ISBN: 9780520222731 / 520222733
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It is a tragedy that Professor Silverberg was battling illness while finishing this book; her attempt to match the form of her subject and create a montage-like prose style doesn't quite cohere.Her section on "Modern Girl as Militant," however, makes for an outstanding stand-alone piece. Interesting topic. I have an issue with her writing style as well as how she uses materials. I am not quite sure what she wants to do with the idea of montage: seems to me that there is a big confusion between how we (or they) look at the time and what it really was constituted of.
