Description | Examination of the relationship between slavery, personhood, and performance in medieval Japan. What physical exertions, gendered relations, and affective investments does the slave figure activate—and toward what ends? Reginald Jackson is Assistant Professor of premodern Japanese literature and performance at the University of Michigan. His research appears in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Mechademia, and the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. |
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