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  • The Pleasures of Metamorphosis

    Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"

    by Lucy Fraser ...
    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure.Lucy Fraser's The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid "explores Japanese and English transformations of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by focusing on pleasure as a means to analyze the huge variety of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We, the Children of Cats

    by Tomoyuki Hoshino ...
    Translated by Brian Bergstrom, Lucy Fraser ...
    Series series Found in Translation
    A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air…. A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose and finds much more than he bargains for…. A journalist investigates a poisoning at an elementary school and gets lost in an underworld of buried crimes, secret societies, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Folktales

    Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past

    by Yei Theodora Ozaki ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    Be transported to a realm of magical kingdoms, mysterious beings and mythical lands.Japanese Folktales is the most complete collection of Japanese stories in English. It introduces readers to the enchanting world of ghouls, goblins, ogres, sea kings, magical birds, dragons and of course, Momotaro, the lovable Peach Boy.Japanese folklore is richly imaginative and the 22 classic stories presented ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture

    Edited by Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, Mark Pendleton ...
    Series series Routledge Companions to Gender
    This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production.The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Japanese Folktales

    Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past

    by Yei Theodora Ozaki ...
    Narrated by Kelly Wilkinson ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 26 min

    Be transported to a realm of magical kingdoms, mysterious beings and mythical lands.Japanese Folktales is the most complete collection of Japanese stories in English. It introduces readers to the enchanting world of ghouls, goblins, ogres, sea kings, magical birds, dragons and of course, Momotaro, the lovable Peach Boy.Japanese folklore is richly imaginative and the 22 classic stories presented ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Very Soil: An Unauthorized Critical Study of Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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  • The Faraway Nearby

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  • Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle

    Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

    by Susan J. Napier ...
    This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book from Susan J Napier , Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime.Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying important social and cultural ... Read more

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  • Becoming Animal

    An Earthly Cosmology

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