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A Proximate Remove : Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji / / Reginald Jackson



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Autore: Jackson Reginald Visualizza persona
Titolo: A Proximate Remove : Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji / / Reginald Jackson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [s.l.] : , : University of California Press, , 2021
Edizione: 1 ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina: 895.63/14
Soggetto topico: History / Asia / Japan
Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies
Social sciences
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 a close reading 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, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances.
Titolo autorizzato: A Proximate Remove  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-38255-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996435447603316
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