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This chapter summarizes the conclusions drawn throughout this study with attention to a question derived from the work of Julia Kristeva, and posed at its outset: What is the point of emphasizing the horror of being? Here, Dumas contends that the works examined in this book—along with the seemingly endless succession of sequels, remakes, and derivative works they have spawned—reveal the complex ambivalence of monstrous femininity as a Japanese pop cultural trope that at once serves to agitate the myriad “open wounds” outlined in this study and models possibilities for resistance to the constraining socio-cultural, economic, and political forces that have exerted themselves within contemporary Japanese life.
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Dumas, R. (2018). The End?. In: The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture. East Asian Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92465-6_7
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