About This Course
Scholars of Japanese art in the last few years have begun to understand that male bodies are, not unlike the female bodies, social constructs upon which gender ideologies were inexorably inscribed. Yet, a vast number of male forms produced/performed/consumed in the domain of Japanese visual and performing arts remain to be studied. This graduate seminar considers various manifestations and representations of the male body in Japanese visual and performing arts. Theories and works to be dealt with in the seminar range, quite widely, from feminist and queer to post-colonial, and from oil paintings and theatrical productions to films.
Other Course Info
Class Schedule:W 2:30-5:00
Location: SMA 207
Instructor: Dr. Maki Kaneko
Office Hours: Th. 1:00-3:00 or by appointment
Office: SMA 213
Questions?
Contact:
Michiko Ito
Japanese Studies Librarian
mito@ku.edu
Required Readings - Book Chapters
Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field by Call Number: NX180.F4 G44 2003ISBN: 0824825721Publication Date: 2003
All assigned book chapters should be available in PDF format via Blackboard.
Genders, Transgenders, and Sexualities in Japan by Call Number: HQ1075.5.J3 G46 2005ISBN: 041535370XPublication Date: 2005
The Male Body: a New Look at Men in Public and Private by Call Number: HQ1090 .B67 1999ISBN: 0374280657Publication Date: 1999
Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation by Call Number: N6847.5.N35 S64 1997ISBN: 0500017654Publication Date: 1997
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution by Call Number: N72.F45 W33 2007ISBN: 0914357999Publication Date: 2007
Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000 by Call Number: N7354.5 .S56 2012ISBN: 9780824834418Publication Date: 2012
Re-Reading the Salaryman in Japan by ISBN: 9780203102084Publication Date: 2012-07-01E-book available from KU Libraries. Click "Connection to electronic text" in the catalog record.
Recreating Japanese Men by Call Number: HQ1090.7.J3 R43 2011ISBN: 9780520267374Publication Date: 2011
Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture by ISBN: 1137283785Publication Date: 2012Available in e-book. Click "Connect to electronic text" in the catalog record.
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams by Call Number: PL747.57.S3 R63 2007ISBN: 9780816649730Publication Date: 2007
Aida Makoto: Monument for Nothing (Tensai de gomennasai) by Call Number: ND1059.A3675 A4 2013ISBN: 4861523699Publication Date: 2013
Consuming Bodies by Call Number: N7355 .C64 2002ISBN: 1861891474Publication Date: 2004Available both in print and e-book. Click "Connect to electronic text" in the catalog record.
Bodies of Memory by Call Number: DS822.5 .I33 2000ISBN: 0691049114Publication Date: 2000Available both in print and e-book. Click "Connect to electronic text" in the catalog record.
The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire by Call Number: TR183 .P27 1998ISBN: 0415145813Publication Date: 1998
Postgender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture by Call Number: N8241.5 .P68 2009ISBN: 9781443809900Publication Date: 2009
Required Reading - Journal Articles
Most of the titles in the list below are linked to the database from which you can download the full text. If not, the assigned materials should be available via Blackboard. If you are accessing these materials from outside of Ku campus, you will be required to sign in your ID and password.
- “Lessons from the Ghost of Salaryman Past: the Global Costs of the Breadwinner Imaginary” by Robin M. LeBlanc. 4 (November 2012): 857-871.Available in Cambridge Journal Online.
- “Murakami’s ‘Little Boy’ Syndrome: Victim or Aggressor in Contemporary Japanese and American Arts?” by Dong-Yeon Koheptember 2010): 393-412. “Available in Academic Search Complete.
- “‘Allied Masculinities’ and the Absent Presences of the Other" by Rika Nakamura.Obtain from BlackBoard.
- “If Men Could Get Pregnant…: Bob Flanagan and Shereer Rose’s Issues of Choice” by Amelia JonesAvailable from Blackboard.
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