Reginald Jackson A Proximate Remove (Paperback)

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Title: A Proximate Remove
Condition: New
Subtitle: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
Author: Reginald Jackson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520382544
EAN: 9780520382541
ISBN: 9780520382541
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: History
Topic: LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, Literary Criticism
Release Date: 06/22/2021
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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.

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 363g
Series: New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Release Year: 2021

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