Presentation Title

Washing Outside the Bath: The Impure Girl's Body in Uchida Shungiku's Early Manga and Fiction

Location

RCC 202

Start Date

12-10-2013 11:00 AM

End Date

12-10-2013 12:30 PM

Abstract

My project explores how Uchida Shungiku manipulates discourses of purity and impurity to address the broader political and historical implications of “victim consciousness” in postwar Japan. In particular, this study looks at the bath as the site in which such discourses are negotiated in Uchida’s early manga and shishōsetsu writing. How, I ask, does Uchida use the impure body to represent the body politic itself? Subsequently, how does Uchida reclaim the process of purification to create a site of seemingly liberated female sexuality?

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Presentation is included in Panel 16: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Literature

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Washing Outside the Bath: The Impure Girl's Body in Uchida Shungiku's Early Manga and Fiction

RCC 202

My project explores how Uchida Shungiku manipulates discourses of purity and impurity to address the broader political and historical implications of “victim consciousness” in postwar Japan. In particular, this study looks at the bath as the site in which such discourses are negotiated in Uchida’s early manga and shishōsetsu writing. How, I ask, does Uchida use the impure body to represent the body politic itself? Subsequently, how does Uchida reclaim the process of purification to create a site of seemingly liberated female sexuality?