Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan by Miri Nakamura

Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

Miri Nakamura

192 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced

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Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters--doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations--bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary l...

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