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Maki Isaka

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Specialties

  • Japanese theater and literature
  • Gender studies
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Publications

  • "The Gender of Onnagata As the Imitating Imitated: Its Historicity, Performativity, and Involvement in the Circulation of Femininity." positions: east asia cultures critique 10.2 (Fall 2002): 245-284. http://positions.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=184 • Chinese translation: "Dui bei mofang zhe de mofang: 'Nüxing' de shehui xingbie--qi lishixing, caoyanxing ji qi zai nüxing tezhi chuanbo zhong de canyu." Trans. Zheng Yanfang; Checked by Zhang Ying. In Wang Zheng and Zhang Ying, editors-in-chief, Nanxing yanjiu: Masculinity Studies. Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Shudian, 2012. 253-291. http://baike.baidu.com/view/9456402.htm • Reprinted (English) in Gender and Japanese Society, vol.4., edited by Dolores P. Martinez. In Critical Concepts in Asian Studies series. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 31-60. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415507042/
  • Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge. New York: Palgrave, 2005. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=270020 (now available in paperback & ebook)
  • "Osanai Kaoru's Dilemma: 'Amateurism by Professionals' in Modern Japanese Theatre." TDR/The Drama Review 49.1 (Spring 2005): 119-133. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/dram/49/1 • Italian translation: "Il dilemma di Osanai Kaoru. «Amatorismo dei professionisti» nel teatro giapponese moderno." Trans. Giuseppe Goisis. Teatro e Storia 19.26 (2005): 315-335. http://www.teatroestoria.it/indici.php?id_volume=88; Electronic edition (2007). http://www.teatroestoria.it/pdf/26/m_morinaga.pdf
  • "Box-Lunch Etiquette: Conduct Guides and Kabuki Onnagata." In Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan. Edited by Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 48-66. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520267848
  • Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ISAONN.html (now available in paperback & ebook)
  • "Women Onnagata in the Porous Labyrinth of Femininity: On Ichikawa Kumehachi I." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 30-31 (2006): 105-131. http://www.josai.jp/jicpas/usjwj/issues/backissues/no30_31.html
  • "Images of Onnagata: Complicating the Binarisms, Unraveling the Labyrinth." In PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture. Edited by Ayelet Zohar. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 22-38. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/postgender-15
  • "What Could Have Happened to 'Femininity' in Japanese Stagecraft: A Memorial Address to Yamada Isuzu (1917-2012)." positions: asia critique 21.3 (Summer 2013): 755-759. http://positions.dukejournals.org/content/21/3/755.short
  • "Yearning for the 'West': Osanai Kaoru and the Concept of Stand-alone Dramas in Modern Japan." In A Companion to World Literature, 6 vols., edited by Ken Seigneurie (general editor). Volume 5b: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century II, edited by B. Venkat Mani and Ken Seigneurie (volume editors). Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell (published by the Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc.), 2020. 3379-3389. https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0271. For the home page of the encyclopedia at Wiley Online Library: https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193 .
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Research

  • "Osanai Kaoru, modernity, and modern Japanese theater" (Osanai Kaoru is considered one of the founders of shingeki [New Theater]: This project studies his writings in terms of "modernity and Japanese theater.").
  • "Gender and onnagata" (Onnagata refers to male actors who perform the roles of women in the kabuki theater: This project studies how gender has been constructed, understood, and theorized in the discourse of onnagata.).
  • "Gei esotericism in Japanese arts" (Gei esotericism refers to "secret transmission" by which dancers, swordsmen, etc. transmitted their expertise: This project studies gei esotericism as a readable logic in its own right, not as a mysterious feature of Japanese culture.).
  • "Women's gidayû-music and its fandom in modern Japan" (Gidayû is vocal music providing music, narration, and characters' voices of a puppet theater, bunraku. Dating from the seventeenth century, both are now defined as all-male traditional performing a...
Courses
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Courses

  • ALL5433: Women's Writing in Premodern Japan in Translation
  • ALL3433W: Traditional Japanese Literature in Translation (Lib Ed req of Ltr [Literature Core]; WI)
  • JPN 5160: Topics in Japanese Literature: Secrecy in Japanese Esoteric Texts
  • JPN 5160: Topics in Japanese Literature: Japanese Feminisms
  • ALL 8920: Topics in Asian Culture: "Gendering" in Premodern Japan: AnOther Philosophy
  • ALL3441W: Japanese Theater (Lib Ed req of AH [Arts/Humanities Core]; WI)
  • ALL1911W: Mind and Muscle: Philosophy and the Martial Arts
  • ALL3442: Performing Arts in Japan
  • ALL1910W: Thinking Gender in Japanese Literature and Theater (Lib Ed req of WI)
  • JPN5041: Readings in Japanese Texts: Literature and Culture
  • ALL5446: Kabuki: A Pop, Queer, and Classical Theater in Japan
  • ALL5920: Topics in Asian Culture: "Cross-Gender" Performance in Japanese Theater
  • AMES 3420: Topics in Japanese Culture: Performing Arts and Martial Arts, AnOther Philosophy in Japan
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