eroticism

Ero-guro-nansensu, from the English words ero for “eroticism,” guro for “grotesque,” and nansensu for “nonsense” was a Japanese mass culture movement that encompassed literature, popular magazines, cinema, and criticism. It responded to feelings of alienation and anxiety that ar…

Classical texts of postcolonial theory rarely address the embodied expression of dance as they examine the colonial body only through the imperial discourses about the Orient (Said), the construction of the Subaltern subject (Spivak), and the ambivalent desire of the colonial ga…