A Genealogy of the EBT Conversation in Japan
This chapter explores the main engagements on life and death boundary transgression in Japan. It presents a historical development of the theme and how it has been approached by different texts, media, and their specific contexts. The chapter is structure
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Miguel Cesar
Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture
Miguel Cesar
Transgressing Death in Japanese Popular Culture
Miguel Cesar University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
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A meu bo amigo Carlos To my good friend Carlos
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Chris Perkins, Helen Parker, Ian Astley and Rayna Denison for their help throughout the research that lead to my PhD thesis and this book. This book began as a thesis at the University of Edinburgh at the Department for Japanese Studies. I would like to thank my peers and friends from the postgraduate research groups at Edinburgh and Madrid for their help and very useful comments. Thanks to my friends, and especially to Carlos Verde for his help, time and support throughout the duration of my PhD and the writing of this book. Although he will not see this book published, he has been a key part of it. And finally, thanks to Clara Martin for her support, patience and understanding.
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 Death and Afterlife in Japan 6 Japanese Secularization 8 Contemporary Discourses, New Media 10 Japanese Popular Culture 12 Chapters’ Overview 15 References 18 2 A Genealogy of the EBT Conversation in Japan 23 The Relevance of the Kojiki to the EBT Conversation 24 Scholarly Approaches to the Kojiki 25 Post-Kojiki Conversations in Premodern Japan 27 The Conversation in Modern Japan 31 Contemporary Japan: E
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