Seeing Stars: Sports Celebrity, Identity, and Body Culture in Modern Japan
- ISBN-10
- 0674056108
- ISBN-13
- 9780674056107
- Series
- Seeing Stars
- Category
- Athletes
- Pages
- 337
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Dennis J. Frost
Description
Drawing from media coverage, biographies, literary works, athletes' memoirs, bureaucratic memoranda, interviews, and films, Frost argues that the largely unquestioned mass of information about sports stars not only reflects, but also shapes society and body culture. He examines the lives and times of star athletes---including sumo grand champion Hitachiyama, female Olympic medalist Hitomi Kinue, legendary pitcher Sawamura Fiji, and world champion boxer Gushiken Yoko---demonstrating how representations of such sports stars mediated Japan's emergence into the putatively universal realm of sports, unsettled orthodox notions of gender, facilitated wartime mobilization of physically fit men and women, and masked lingering inequalities in postwar Japanese society. --
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