[PDF.45mu] Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan (Ideologies of Desire)

Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan (Ideologies of Desire)

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 | #2731722 in Books |  1999-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.40 x.90 x6.00l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Homosexuality, AIDS, and Japan|By A Customer|I've been a big fan of Treat's essays since I read Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, so I picked up this book with some understanding of his writing already. Anyway, I expected this book to be about gay life in Japan and Japanese literature, but it turned out not to be about that at all... or at least, not much. A lot|From Library Journal|In the fall of 1986, the full impact of AIDS struck in Japan. At that time, Treat (Asian languages and literatures, Univ. of Washington) was on sabbatical in Nakano. Superficially, this is a month-by-month memoir of a year in the life of a b

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 Japanes...

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