Great mirrors shattered : homosexuality, orientalism, and Japan / John Whittier Treat
- Bib ID:
- 2891887
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- Book
- Author:
- Treat, John Whittier
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- Description:
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999
- xi, 241 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195109236 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- Series:
- Ideologies of desire.
- Summary:
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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 a 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 United States. It is also a highly self-aware analysis of Orientalism, which the author defines as "the Western study of everywhere else," and an exploration of how sexual identity conditions knowledge across cultures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241).
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- 1999
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