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Kabuki boy : a novel of old Japan
- Title
- Kabuki boy : a novel of old Japan / Perle Besserman.
- Author
- Besserman, Perle
- Publication
- New Orleans : Aqueous Books, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-5122 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Perle Besserman's Kabuki Boy is a novel of Japan set in and around the capital city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) during the waning decades of the Tokugawa Era (1600-1868). Broadening the often narrowly focused literary and cinematic portrayals of samurai resistance to their declining social status, Besserman's vivid narrative conveys that tumultuous period through the eyes of its peasants, priests, politicians, revolutionaries, mountebanks, geisha, and actors using the Kabuki theatre as a backdrop. Its nineteenth-century framework nested in a post-modern narrative by its fictional twentieth-century "editor," a cultural historian and abbot of a Zen monastery one hundred miles from Tokyo, the book is comprised of memoirs, theatrical and monastery records, personal letters and journals, all centering on the life of a Kabuki boy actor whose brief but illustrious career reflects not only the "golden age of Kabuki Theatre," but the most dramatic spiritual, political, and artistic events characterizing Japan's violent emergence into the modern world"--Page 4 of cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Language (note)
- In English.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-5122
- ISBN
- 9780988383760
- 0988383764
- OCLC
- 843213780
- Author
- Besserman, Perle, author.
- Title
- Kabuki boy : a novel of old Japan / Perle Besserman.
- Publisher
- New Orleans : Aqueous Books, [2013]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- In English.
- Chronological Term
- 1600 - 1868
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-5122