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Gender, Tradition, and Culture in Translation: Reading the Onnagata in English
- Asian Theatre Journal
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 89-111
- 10.1353/atj.2012.0023
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A survey of the literature published in English on the practice of the kabuki onnagata is given in relation to readings of contemporary gender theory and issues of female representation in and exclusion from the form. Scholarly cross-cultural readings in Japanese theatre are probed.