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Contesting the myths of samurai baseball : cultural representations of Japan's national pastime /
- Title
- Contesting the myths of samurai baseball : cultural representations of Japan's national pastime / Christopher T. Keaveney.
- Author
- Keaveney, Christopher T.,
- Publication
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- ix, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-222) and index (pages [223]-230).
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : myths of Japanese baseball and the game's cultural representations -- Samurai baseball : the popular press and the making of a national pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan -- Portrait of the artist as Yakyū Seinen : Masaoka Shiki and the poetry of baseball -- Coming home : portraying Japanese baseball on the silver screen -- The one constant : the literature of nostalgia and catharsis in postwar Japanese baseball fiction -- Game on : encounters with the magic of baseball in Japanese postmodern fiction -- Happy medium : re-envisioning the hero in Japanese baseball manga -- Epilogue : the enduring cultural appeal of baseball in Japan -- Appendix : glossary of selected terms in Japanese.
- ISBN
- 9789888455829 (hardcover)
- 9888455826 (hardcover)
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library