Jeffrey Angles

Writing the Love of Boys

Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780816669707
• ISBN-10: 0816669708
• Artikelnr.: 32739255

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Angles is associate professor of modern Japanese literature and translation studies at Western Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Note about Japanese Names
Introduction
1. Blow the Blood-Stained Bugle: Murayama Kaita and the Language of
Personal Sensation
2. Treading the Edges of the Known World: Homoerotic Fantasies in Murayama
Kaita's Prose
3. The Appeal of the Strange: Same-Sex Desire in Edogawa Ranpo's Mystery
Fiction
4. (Re)Discovering Same-Sex Love: Ranpo and the Creation of Queer History
5. Uninscribing the Adolescent Body: Aesthetic Resistance in Taruho's
Writing
Conclusion: Postwar Legacies
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index