Poison women : political bodies of an Ero-Guro-Nansense age

• Main Author: Wong, Shu Min
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67049
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This project intends to explore how Edogawa Rampo rewrites the figure of the dokufu (毒婦) or poison woman as a political figure capable of articulating the logic of Japan’s ero-guro-nansense years during the 1920s to 1930s. The dehistoricised body of the female criminal was used as a tool to instruct...