A proximate remove: queering intimacy and loss in The tale of Genji
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Benefits of the Doubt: Questioning Discipline and the Risks of Queer Reading -- Introduction -- 1. Translation Fantasies and False Flags: Desiring and Misreading Queerness in Premodern Japan -- 2. Chivalry in Shambles: Fabricating Manhood amid A...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berkeley, CA
University of California Press
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | New Interventions in Japanese Studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Murasaki Shikibu 978-1016, Genji monogatari
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Human Sexuality) / Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIAL SCIENCE
B Asia / Japan / HISTORY B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Generals / LGBT Studies B LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese |
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Cover (Publisher) Cover (Publisher) Volltext (Open access) Volltext (Open access) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Rights Information: | CC BY-ND 4.0 |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Benefits of the Doubt: Questioning Discipline and the Risks of Queer Reading -- Introduction -- 1. Translation Fantasies and False Flags: Desiring and Misreading Queerness in Premodern Japan -- 2. Chivalry in Shambles: Fabricating Manhood amid Architectural Disrepair -- 3. Going through the Motions: Half-Hearted Courtship and the Topology of Queer Shame -- 4. Queer Affections in Exile: Textual Mediation and Exposure at Suma Shore -- 5. From Harsh Stare to Reverberant Caress: Queer Timbres of Mourning in “The Flute” -- Conclusion. Learning from Loss -- Afterword. Teaching Removal -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through close readings of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls ";proximate removes"; suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, A Proximate Remove contends that Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. This hesitation enhances how we engage premodern texts and question contemporary disciplinary stances |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (246 p) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-38255-8 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1525/9780520382558 |
