Great Mirrors Shattered Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan

Name: Great Mirrors Shattered Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan
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ISBN: 9780195109238

ISBN-10: 0195109236

ISBN-13: 9780195109238

Edition: 1999

Authors: John Whittier Treat

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In 1986, John Whittier Treat went to Tokyo on sabbatical to write a book about the literature of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But once there, he found himself immersed in the emergence of new kind of Holocaust, AIDS, and the sweeping denial, hysteria, and projection with which Japan--a place where "there are no homosexuals"--tried to insulate itself from the epidemic. Great Mirrors Shattered is a compelling memoir of a gay man thoroughly familiar with the Japanese homosexual underground, a man anxious for his own health and unsure of the relationship he has left behind in the US. It is also a highly self-aware analysis of Orientalism, which the author defines as "the Western study of everywhere…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Certain Details: September


Stray Dogs, Ready Cash: October


New Words: November


The Common Good: December


The Theory of the Japanese People: January


Morals Business: February


The Social Situation: March


Special Friends: April


A Play of Muscles: May


Syntax, Et Cetera: June


M. Andrew: July


The Great Sympathetic Paradox: August


My Tokyo: September


Notes