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Buruma, Ian. Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes
New York Pantheon Books 1984 0394537750 / 9780394537757 First American Edition Hard Cover Good Very Good
First printing. White cloth spine with brown paper boards and metallic titling and decoration. 242 pages. Black & white illustrations. Bibliographicl Notes. Index. ~ Book has some brown staining on cloth spine; brief note in black pen on front pastedown; previous owner notations in black pen fills up front free endpaper; handwritten date on rear free endpaper; first 50 pages of text have interspersed black pen underlining, remaining pages are unmarked; some foxing on top of text block. Dust jacket is very good with browning along top edge and very light wear at head of spine and flap folds, vertical crease on front flap fold and small corner crease on back flap fold. Now in clear archival cover. ~~ Buruma examines the popular media and other Japanese cultural institutions and "offers insight into the rather raunchy, violent, and sometimes morbid side of the Japanese beyond the forms of delicacy with which we are most familiar. . . . how sexuality and sex roles underpin the elaborate structures of Japanese culture. He sees how women are traditionally worshipped as maternal goddesses but feared as sexual demons; how they are trained in the art of seeming passive and artificial as dolls, and highly active as prostitutes. He looks at the downtrodden Japanese father; the violent world of the Japanese gangster-hero; the ancient code of honor as conceived by today's salaryman; and the quintessential Japanese drifter. And he looks at the middle world of the transvestite, where sex roles are most clearly defined . . . "Behind the Mask" is perceptive, informed, and authoritative; it is also colorful and earthy--splendid entertainment written with panache." --dust jacket.
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