Ero-Guro-Nansensu: Modernity and its Discontents in Taishō and Early Shōwa Japan
dc.contributor.advisor | Bess, Michael | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Wollaeger, Mark | |
dc.creator | Lackney, Lisa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-15T23:36:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-15T23:36:11Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-08 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-18 | |
dc.date.submitted | August 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15954 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ero-guro-nansensu, from the English words ero for “eroticism,” guro for “grotesque,” and nansensu for “nonsense” was a Japanese mass culture movement that encompassed literature, popular magazines, cinema, and criticism. It responded to feelings of alienation and anxiety that arose out of social change during the Taishō (1912-1926) and early Shōwa periods (1926-1989). While some elements of the genre, like detective fiction or psychological studies, were directly influenced by the West, ero-guro-nansensu as a whole has no direct equivalent outside of Japan. Thus, studying ero-guro-nansensu can reveal the anxieties of Japanese modernity shared globally while also showing the culturally specific ways writers and artists responded to them. This dissertation will argue that ero-guro-nansensu discourses looked for compensatory value in mass culture as a means of coping with feelings of anxiety and distress induced by the rapid modernization that the nation experienced in the first half of the twentieth century. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Japan | |
dc.subject | Modernism | |
dc.subject | Popular Culture | |
dc.subject | Cultural History | |
dc.title | Ero-Guro-Nansensu: Modernity and its Discontents in Taishō and Early Shōwa Japan | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-09-15T23:36:11Z | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PhD | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.discipline | History | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University Graduate School | |
dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0001-6227-4646 |
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