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Great Mirrors Shattered : Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan by John Whittier Treat (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100195109236
ISBN-139780195109238
eBay Product ID (ePID)597935
Product Key Features
Book TitleGreat Mirrors Shattered : Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicSociology / General, Diseases / Aids & Hiv, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
GenreSocial Science, Health & Fitness
AuthorJohn Whittier Treat
Book SeriesIdeologies of Desire Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-020609
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"[Treat] combines elements of postmodernism and journalism, deftly interlacing personal details with scholarly and pop-culture references and streaks of erotica, while shifting between layers of personal and historical time and place. Highly recommended for gay studies, human sexuality andAsian studies collections in all libraries."--Library Journal, "One of the richest and most original examinations of Asian homosexual culture in recent memory.... Combines elements of postmodernism and journalism, deftly interlacing personal details with scholarly and pop-culture references and streaks of erotica, while shifting between layers of personaland historical time and place. Highly recommended for gay studies, human sexuality and Asian studies collections in all libraries."--Library Journal
Dewey Decimal306.76/6/0952
SynopsisIn 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 else," and an exploration of how sexual identity conditions knowledge across cultures. Jump-cutting between such texts as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice , Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysantheme , Saikaku's The Great Mirror of Male Love , the writings of Roland Barthes, newspaper headlines, and his own experiences during a previous stay in Japan, Treat creates an intricately textured account of the problems inherent in how we "know" another culture. The questions of self and other, difference and sameness, time past and time present, America and Japan, are explored here with rare intelligence and unabashedly personal disclosure. Great Mirrors Shattered gives us a brilliantly fractured reflection of a year in one man's life, and the first study of the sexual politics behind what the West has come to know not just about Japan, but any place Europeans and Americans have gone to escape the confining rules of their home cultures., 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 else," and an exploration of how sexual identity conditions knowledge across cultures. Jump-cutting between such texts as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysantheme, Saikaku's The Great Mirror of Male Love, the writings of Roland Barthes, newspaper headlines, and his own experiences during a previous stay in Japan, Treat creates an intricately textured account of the problems inherent in how we "know" another culture. The questions of self and other, difference and sameness, time past and time present, America and Japan, are explored here with rare intelligence and unabashedly personal disclosure. Great Mirrors Shattered gives us a brilliantly fractured reflection of a year in one man's life, and the first study of the sexual politics behind what the West has come to know not just about Japan, but any place Europeans and Americans have gone to escape the confining rules of their home cultures., 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 U.S.
LC Classification NumberHQ76.3.J3T74 1999
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