Two-Timing Modernity

Two-Timing Modernity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781684175284
ISBN-13 : 1684175283
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Book Synopsis Two-Timing Modernity by : Keith J. Vincent

Download or read book Two-Timing Modernity written by Keith J. Vincent and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Until the late nineteenth century, Japan could boast of an elaborate cultural tradition surrounding the love and desire that men felt for other men. By the first years of the twentieth century, however, as heterosexuality became associated with an enlightened modernity, love between men was increasingly branded as “feudal” or immature. The resulting rupture in what has been called the “male homosocial continuum” constitutes one of the most significant markers of Japan’s entrance into modernity. And yet, just as early Japanese modernity often seemed haunted by remnants of the premodern past, the nation’s newly heteronormative culture was unable and perhaps unwilling to expunge completely the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors—Mori Ōgai, Natsume Sōseki, Hamao Shirō, and Mishima Yukio—encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by employing new narrative techniques to stage tensions between two forms of temporality: the forward-looking time of modernization and normative development, and the “perverse” time of nostalgia, recursion, and repetition."


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