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Author Keaveney, Christopher T., author.
Title Contesting the myths of samurai baseball : cultural representations of Japan's national pastime / Christopher T. Keaveney.
Publisher Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2018]
Copyright date ©2018



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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 9789888455355 (electronic bk.)
9888455354 (electronic bk.)
9789888455829
9888455826
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Author Keaveney, Christopher T., author.
Subject Baseball -- Japan -- History.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Baseball films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Baseball in literature -- History and criticism.
Bushido -- Japan.
Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations
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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 9789888455355 (electronic bk.)
9888455354 (electronic bk.)
9789888455829
9888455826
Author Keaveney, Christopher T., author.
Subject Baseball -- Japan -- History.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Baseball films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Baseball in literature -- History and criticism.
Bushido -- Japan.
Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Japan.

Subject Baseball -- Japan -- History.
Baseball -- Social aspects -- Japan.
Baseball films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Baseball in literature -- History and criticism.
Bushido -- Japan.
Popular culture -- Study and teaching -- Japan.
Descript 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
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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 9789888455355 (electronic bk.)
9888455354 (electronic bk.)
9789888455829
9888455826

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