Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic
depictions of love between men, around the fin de siecle Japanese
culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. "Writing the
Love of Boys" looks at the response to this mindset during the
critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars as a
number of Japanese writers challenged the idea of love and desire
between men as pathological.
Jeffrey Angles focuses on key writers, examining how they
experimented with new language, genres, and ideas to find fresh
ways to represent love and desire between men. He traces the
personal and literary relationships between contemporaries such as
the poet Murayama Kaita, the mystery writers Edogawa Ranpo and
Hamao Shiro, the anthropologist Iwata Jun'ichi, and the avant-garde
innovator Inagaki Taruho.
"Writing the Love of Boys" shows how these authors interjected the
subject of male-male desire into discussions of modern art,
aesthetics, and perversity. It also explores the impact of their
efforts on contemporary Japanese culture, including the development
of the tropes of male homoeroticism that recur so often in Japanese
girls' manga about bishonen love.
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