Miri Nakamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miri Nakamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miri |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakamura |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAMURA M |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1379-1123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Monstrous Bodies
Monstrous Bodies
Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868 1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of stigmatized others figures subve…
The Cult of Happiness
This article is a study of the representation of maids ( kahi, jochū ) in modern Japanese literature and culture. It examines maids as producers of affective labor—work that is not equated to wage production of material goods but one that demands emotion and affect. The article traces the emergence of this discourse in the Meiji era, calling it “the cult of happiness.” The study then analyzes the maid and the housewife in Higuchi Ichiyō’s (1872–9…
Japanese Demon Lore
Tezuka Is Dead
Marking bodily differences
With the introduction of the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek (1890–1938) in 1923, Japan witnessed a boom of literature about robots (jinzō ningen). Early Showa Japan was undergoing a rapid mechanization process where machines were incorporated into the modern landscape, and these robots became the epitome of the machine's power and authority. At the same time, however, they also produced considerable anxiety about the mecha…
Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction
Women’s sf in Japan contains many depictions and expressions of the body. This paper will focus on three themes in particular in a number of works in order to examine the history of Japanese women’s sf: A) The Utopia of Women: Suzuki Izumi (The World of Women and Women), Hikawa Reiko (Women Warriors Efera and Jiriora), Matsuo Yumi (The Murders of Balloontown), and Arai Motoko (Tigris and Euphrates); B) The Transformation of Women into Monsters: H…
Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan
popular genre known as "irregular detective fiction" (henkaku tantei shôsetsu), the forerunner of Japanese science fiction, flourished in Japan during the 1920s and the 1930s. Yumeno Kyusaku's Dogura magura (1935) is a representative work of this group of texts and is perceived as the culmination of the author's literary career. For Yumeno, the mode of horror was an essential ingredient for his detective fiction, and in Dogura magura, this horror…
Marking bodily differences
With the introduction of the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek (1890–1938) in 1923, Japan witnessed a boom of literature about robots (jinzō ningen). Early Showa Japan was undergoing a rapid mechanization process where machines were incorporated into the modern landscape, and these robots became the epitome of the machine's power and authority. At the same time, however, they also produced considerable anxiety about the mecha…
Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan
popular genre known as "irregular detective fiction" (henkaku tantei shôsetsu), the forerunner of Japanese science fiction, flourished in Japan during the 1920s and the 1930s. Yumeno Kyusaku's Dogura magura (1935) is a representative work of this group of texts and is perceived as the culmination of the author's literary career. For Yumeno, the mode of horror was an essential ingredient for his detective fiction, and in Dogura magura, this horror…
Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction
Women’s sf in Japan contains many depictions and expressions of the body. This paper will focus on three themes in particular in a number of works in order to examine the history of Japanese women’s sf: A) The Utopia of Women: Suzuki Izumi (The World of Women and Women), Hikawa Reiko (Women Warriors Efera and Jiriora), Matsuo Yumi (The Murders of Balloontown), and Arai Motoko (Tigris and Euphrates); B) The Transformation of Women into Monsters: H…
Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan
popular genre known as "irregular detective fiction" (henkaku tantei shôsetsu), the forerunner of Japanese science fiction, flourished in Japan during the 1920s and the 1930s. Yumeno Kyusaku's Dogura magura (1935) is a representative work of this group of texts and is perceived as the culmination of the author's literary career. For Yumeno, the mode of horror was an essential ingredient for his detective fiction, and in Dogura magura, this horror…
Marking bodily differences
With the introduction of the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek (1890–1938) in 1923, Japan witnessed a boom of literature about robots (jinzō ningen). Early Showa Japan was undergoing a rapid mechanization process where machines were incorporated into the modern landscape, and these robots became the epitome of the machine's power and authority. At the same time, however, they also produced considerable anxiety about the mecha…
Tezuka Is Dead
Japanese Demon Lore
Monstrous Bodies
Monstrous Bodies
Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868 1912) up until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937. Such monsters have often been understood as representations of the premodern past or of stigmatized others figures subve…
The Cult of Happiness
This article is a study of the representation of maids ( kahi, jochū ) in modern Japanese literature and culture. It examines maids as producers of affective labor—work that is not equated to wage production of material goods but one that demands emotion and affect. The article traces the emergence of this discourse in the Meiji era, calling it “the cult of happiness.” The study then analyzes the maid and the housewife in Higuchi Ichiyō’s (1872–9…
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)