Terayama Shūji and Bluebeard
2013; Wayne State University Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.13110/marvelstales.27.2.0290
ISSN1536-1802
Autores Tópico(s)Japanese History and Culture
ResumoThe Japanese countercultural icon Terayama Shūji produced three projects in the years 1961–1979 that rework the legend of Bluebeard, often intermixing the folkloric narrative with contemporary lived reality. This was a countervailing tendency to the tide of texts emerging at the time that demythologize Bluebeard by means of historical figures such as Gilles de Rais. Terayama’s work on Bluebeard might best be understood as an effort to frustrate the mapping of folklore and legend to practices of the past and to insist on the liberational potential of taking possession of narratives in the folkloric mode.
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