書籍：Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature

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Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature

　Jeffrey Angles

　平成23・2011年　University of Minnesota Press

　21×13センチ　ペーパーバック　302ページ　25セント

 

主要関連箇所

3　The Appeal of the Strange: Same-Sex Desire in Edogawa Ranpo's Mystery Fiction

　p107ー141

4　(Re)Discovering Same-Sex Love: Ranpo and the Creation of Queer History

　p143ー192

 

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3　The Appeal of the Strange: Same-Sex Desire in Edogawa Ranpo's Mystery Fiction

 

The 1920s and 1930s were a time of massive change in Japan. As the nation recovered from the devastating Kantô earthquake of 1923, the consumer market underwent a period of unprecedented expansion, as did the publishing industry and the related mechanisms of censorship. Meanwhile, the economy swelled then collapsed, driving the Japanese to increase colonial holdings on the Asian mainland. In conjunction with these developments, there emerged an increasingly complex, cosmopolitan, and hybrid modern culture that profoundly transformed Japanese life and expression.

 

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4　(Re)Discovering Same-Sex Love: Ranpo and the Creation of Queer History

 

In getting medieval, Carolyn Dinshaw writes that one of the reasons people explore queer history is to make cross-temporal connections between "on the one hand, lives, texts, and other cultural phenomena left out of sexual categories back then and, on the other hand, those left out of current sexual categories now." She notes such impulses are grounded in the attempt to extend "the resources for self- and community-building into even the distant past," and she describes her own wish for "partial affective connection, for community, for even a touch across time." In Feeling Backward, Heather Love further explains this desire for connection when she remarks, "The longing for community across time is a crucial feature of queer historical experience, one produced by the historical isolation of individual queers as well as by the damaged quality of the historical archive."

 

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