Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji - Softcover

Ridgely, Steven C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816667535 ISBN 13: 9780816667536

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

Explores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan.

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Review:

"Steven C. Ridgely’s Japanese Counterculture is invaluable—a long overdue study of Terayama’s complex oeuvre, carefully researched and brilliantly argued. But Japanese Counterculture offers much more: it proposes to redefine the practice of cultural and countercultural studies, and even more significantly, the very nature of global culture. Therein lie its force, ingenuity, and radicality." —Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California

"Ridgely’s exciting book opens Terayama’s world—his work as a poet, playwright/theater director, radio dramatist, filmmaker—and most importantly conveys the feeling and air of the times, the ‘tactical’ interventions of this fascinating figure within the space of counterculture." —Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley

From the Author:

Steven C. Ridgely is assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0816667535
• ISBN 13: 9780816667536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264