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The Flesh, Subject, Embodiment in Postwar Japan: Through Nikutai and Gutai (2022)
Book Chapter
Innami, F. (2022). The Flesh, Subject, Embodiment in Postwar Japan: Through Nikutai and Gutai. In G. Siary, T. Takemoto, V. Vuilleumier, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), LE CORPS DANS LES LITTÉRATURES MODERNES D’ASIE ORIENTALE : DISCOURS, REPRÉSENTATION, INTERMÉDIALITÉ (The Body in Modern Asian Literature: Discourse, Representation, Intermediality) (359-374). Collège de France. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.cdf.12570

Falling Dance: Hijikata’s Recomposition of the Body via Bacon (2021)
Journal Article
Innami, F. (2021). Falling Dance: Hijikata’s Recomposition of the Body via Bacon. The Senses and Society, 16(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2021.1874142

The themes of transformation, indefinite form, and disintegration haunt the work of many post-World War II artists, who had witnessed the animality of human beings as well as the depths to which human beings can fall in wartime. This paper looks at f... Read More about Falling Dance: Hijikata’s Recomposition of the Body via Bacon.

Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing (2019)
Book Chapter
Innami, F. (2019). Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing. In J. Coates, L. Fraser, & M. Pendleton (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (373-381). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179582-37

This chapter aims to develop an approach to the gendered cultures that may be hierarchically valued as “high” or “low” by focusing on the body as a medium of expression. I argue for the possibility of the embodied experience being employed as a way t... Read More about Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing.

Ethics of Incorporation: (Im)possibility of Accepting Otherness in Kawabata's ‘One Arm’ (2015)
Journal Article
Innami, F. (2016). Ethics of Incorporation: (Im)possibility of Accepting Otherness in Kawabata's ‘One Arm’. Culture, Theory and Critique, 57(3), 373-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2015.1073113

On touching, an object mediates and equally prevents our contacts with others. But what if one incorporates another's body? Japanese author Kawabata Yasunari, in his ‘One Arm’, describes a peculiar encounter with the other's body: the protagonist rep... Read More about Ethics of Incorporation: (Im)possibility of Accepting Otherness in Kawabata's ‘One Arm’.

Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki (2015)
Journal Article
Innami, F. (2015). Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki. Contemporary Japan, 27(1), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.1515/cj-2015-0003

This paper examines the shifting concept of the body in contemporary Japan through the phenomenon of “co-sleeping” (soine) services. It takes as examples Kawabata Yasunari’s 1961 novel House of the Sleeping Beauties (HSB), Yoshimoto Banana’s 1989 nov... Read More about Co-sleeping: engaging with the commodified dozing body in Kawabata, Yoshimoto, and Yamazaki.

The Departing Body: Creation of the Neutral in-between Sensual Bodies (2011)
Journal Article
Innami, F. (2011). The Departing Body: Creation of the Neutral in-between Sensual Bodies. Azijske študije, XV(3), 111-130. https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2011.-15.3.111-130

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 co... Read More about The Departing Body: Creation of the Neutral in-between Sensual Bodies.