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Diva nation : female icons from Japanese cultural history / edited by Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland.

Contributor(s): Miller, Laura, 1953- [editor.] | Copeland, Rebecca L, 1956- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520297739; 0520297733; 9780520297722; 0520297725Subject(s): Women in popular culture -- JapanDDC classification: 305.40952 LOC classification: HQ1762 | .D58 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
Contents:
Preface : transnational and time-travelling divas / Laura Hein -- Diva seductions : an introduction to diva nation / Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland -- Kirino Natsuo meets Izanami: angry divas talking back / Rebecca Copeland -- Ame no Uzume crosses boundaries / Tomoko Aoyama -- Searching for charisma queen Himiko / Laura Miller -- Izumo no Okuni queers the stage / Barbara Hartley -- From child star to diva : Misora Hibari as postwar Japan / Christine R. Yano -- Yoko Ono : a transgressive diva / Carolyn S. Stevens -- Transbeauty IKKO : a diva's guide to glamour, virtue, and healing / Jan Bardsley -- Seizing the spotlight, staging the self : Uchida Shungiku / Amanda C. Seaman -- The unmaking of a diva : Kanehara Hitomi's comfortable anonymity / David Holloway -- Ice princess : Asada Mao the demure diva / Masafumi Monden -- Afterword : diva tte nan desu ka? (what is a diva?) / Rokudenashiko (translated by Kazue Harada).
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HQ1762 .D58 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903525786

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.

Preface : transnational and time-travelling divas / Laura Hein -- Diva seductions : an introduction to diva nation / Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland -- Kirino Natsuo meets Izanami: angry divas talking back / Rebecca Copeland -- Ame no Uzume crosses boundaries / Tomoko Aoyama -- Searching for charisma queen Himiko / Laura Miller -- Izumo no Okuni queers the stage / Barbara Hartley -- From child star to diva : Misora Hibari as postwar Japan / Christine R. Yano -- Yoko Ono : a transgressive diva / Carolyn S. Stevens -- Transbeauty IKKO : a diva's guide to glamour, virtue, and healing / Jan Bardsley -- Seizing the spotlight, staging the self : Uchida Shungiku / Amanda C. Seaman -- The unmaking of a diva : Kanehara Hitomi's comfortable anonymity / David Holloway -- Ice princess : Asada Mao the demure diva / Masafumi Monden -- Afterword : diva tte nan desu ka? (what is a diva?) / Rokudenashiko (translated by Kazue Harada).

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