The Departing Body: Creation of the Neutral in-between Sensual Bodies
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https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2011.15.3.111-130Keywords:
space-in-between, selfhood, sensual and sexual, passivity, skinshipAbstract
This paper investigates the Japanese concept of ma/aida, the space in-between, discussed by French author Roland Barthes as the Neutral, not signifying the medium of the opposite poles but the bare existence. It first analyzes how the discourse of contiguous relationships and the space between others has functioned in modern and postwar Japan, and further employs the works of the Japanese female writer Matsuura Rieko as counterexamples,with particular emphasis on the space between the sensual and the sexual. It provides a fresh view on the conceptions of space and indirectness between and within the body.
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Matsuura, Rieko 松浦理英子. 1994. Yasashii kyosei no tameni. 優しい去勢のために (For a Gentle Castration.) Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō.
Matsuura, Rieko 松浦理英子. 2006. “For a Gentle Castration.” In Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women’s Writing. Translated by Amanda Seaman, and edited by Rebecca L. Copeland, 194–205. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
Originally published in Yasashii kyosei no tameni 優しい去勢のために (For a Gentle Castration) (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1994).
Matsuura, Rieko 松浦理英子. 2007. Kenshin 犬身 (The Dogbody). Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha.
Matsuura, Rieko 松浦理英子. 2009. The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P. Translated by Michael Emmerich. Tokyo: Kōdansha International. Originally published as Oyayubi P no shugyō jidai 親指Pの修行時代 (Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1993).
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Nancy, Jean-Luc. 2008. Corpus. Translated by Richard A. Rand. New York: Fordham University Press. Originally published as Corpus (Paris: Métailié, 1992).
Natsume, Sōseki 夏目漱石. 1978 (1914). Watakushi no kojinshugi 私の個人主義 (My Individualism). Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Seem, Mark. 1983. “Introduction.” In Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, by Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, and edited by Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, xv–xxiv. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. Originally published as L’Anti-Oedipe (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972).
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1. 12. 2011
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Innami, Fusako. 2011. “The Departing Body: Creation of the Neutral in-Between Sensual Bodies”. Asian Studies 15 (3): 111-30. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2011.15.3.111-130.
