Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon

Alexus McLeod

doi:10.5771/9781666944617

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4460-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4461-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 332
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. A Guiding Theory of Myth as Narrative No access
2. The Role of Narrative in Human Life and the Martial Arts No access
3. Outline and Overview No access
4. Notes No access
1. Early Chinese and Indian Developments No access
2. Japanese Developments No access
3. Modern Martial Arts No access
4. Martial Arts and Identity No access
5. Notes No access
1. Warrior Rituals No access
2. The Dance of War No access
3. Fighting Forms—“Kata” as Ritual No access
4. Notes No access
1. Bushido and the Martial Arts Ethos in Edo Period Japan No access
2. The Influence of Buddhism No access
3. Takuan Sōhō and the Mind of No-Mind No access
4. Suzuki Shōsan—Kill Your Mind! No access
5. Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Jōchō)’s “Hidden Leaves” and the Way of the Samurai No access
6. Bushido and the Modern Martial Arts No access
7. Notes No access
1. Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Martial Arts Manuals No access
2. Revival of Correlative Cosmology No access
3. The Individual and the Nation No access
4. Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Physical Culture-Contrasts No access
5. The Boxer Rebellion No access
6. 1. The Case of Taekwondo and International Sport No access
7. Notes No access
1. 1. Lee’s Conception of the “True Self” No access
  2. On Styles and the Self No access
2. The True Self, the Aspirational Self, and Human Limitation No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Idea of Masculine Potency in the Contemporary Martial Arts No access
2. Martial Arts as a Tool of Empowerment Among Black Practitioners in Twentieth-Century USA No access
3. The Role of Film in Black Martial Arts Empowerment No access
4. Notes No access
1. Modern Consumer Culture and Combat Sport No access
2. Bloodsport—“Kumite” and the Early Myth of MMA No access
3. “Too Hot for TV”: Consumer Culture of the Transgressive 1990s No access
4. Kayfabe and Fighting Entertainment No access
5. “Reality” Martial Arts and the Creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship No access
6. Ideologies of MMA: Racial Aggression and Right-Wing Politics No access
7. Ideologies of MMA: Real Fighting No access
8. 1. Ideologies of MMA: Transgressiveness No access
9. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 309 - 312
Bibliography No access Pages 313 - 324
Index No access Pages 325 - 330
About the Author No access Pages 331 - 332