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In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji
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In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Reichert, Jim

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  • Title In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature
  • Author Reichert, Jim
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press
  • Date 2006-01-19
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0804752141.G
  • ISBN 9780804752145 / 0804752141
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.86 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects History and criticism, Male homosexuality, in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005023284
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.609

From the publisher

In the Company of Men examines representations of male-male sexuality in literature from the Meiji period (1868-1912), the era when Japan embarked on an unprecedented modernization campaign. Because male-male sexuality occupied a prominent place in the literary culture of the preceding Edo period (1600-1868), the issue was of importance to Meiji writers and intellectuals, especially given the stigma attached to male-male sexuality in Europe and America, the "civilized" societies that Japan strove to emulate as it modernized. The heterosexualization of literature thus emerged as a key component of the production of Japanese literary and cultural modernity. At the same time, male-male sexuality also surfaced as an important cultural symbol for segments of society opposed to the push to modernize. In the Company of Men considers how these conflicting attitudes toward male-male sexuality manifested themselves in Meiji literary history.

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In the Company of Men examines representations of male-male sexuality in literature from the Meiji period (1868-1912), the era when Japan embarked on an unprecedented modernization campaign. Because male-male sexuality occupied a prominent place in the literary culture of the preceding Edo period (1600-1868), the issue was of importance to Meiji writers and intellectuals, especially given the stigma attached to male-male sexuality in Europe and America, the "civilized" societies that Japan strove to emulate as it modernized. The heterosexualization of literature thus emerged as a key component of the production of Japanese literary and cultural modernity. At the same time, male-male sexuality also surfaced as an important cultural symbol for segments of society opposed to the push to modernize. In the Company of Men considers how these conflicting attitudes toward male-male sexuality manifested themselves in Meiji literary history.

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2006, Page 1989

About the author

Jim Reichert is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Stanford University.

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