Writing the love of boys : origins of Bishōnen culture in modernist Japanese literature
Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siFcle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. Writing the Love of Boys looks at the response to this mindset during the critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars as a number of Japanese writers challenged the idea of love and desire between men as pathological. Jeffrey Angles focuses on key writers, examining how they experimented with new language, genres, and ideas to find fresh ways to represent love and desire between men. He traces the pe
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (vii, 302 pages) : illustrations
9780816676835, 9781299947092, 0816676836, 1299947093
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Blow the blood-stained bugle : Murayama Kaita and the language of personal sensation
Treading the edges of the known world : homoerotic fantasies in Murayama Kaita's prose
The appeal of the strange : same-sex desire in Edogawa Ranpo's mystery fiction
(Re)discovering same-sex love : Ranpo and the creation of Queer history
Uninscribing the adolescent body : aesthetic resistance in Taruho's writing
Conclusion : postwar legacies
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