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A Proximate Remove - Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
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A Proximate Remove - Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (Paperback)
Series: New Interventions in Japanese Studies, 2
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos,
University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory
transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and
how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and
critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The
Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles
of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores
this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective,
and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss.
The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls "proximate
removes" suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of
sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or
reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this
hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we
question contemporary disciplinary stances.
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