Queer subjects in modern Japanese literature : male love, intimacy, and erotics, 1886-2014 / Stephen D. Miller, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Stephen D., 1949- editor.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 96.

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 96

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--1868---Translations into English.

Japanese literature.

Homosexuality in literature.

Gay men in literature.

Homosexuality--Japan.

Homosexuality.

Gay men--Japan.

Gay men.

Gay men--Literary collections.

Gay men's writings, Japanese--Translations into English.

Gay men's writings, Japanese.

Japan.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Translations.

Physical Description:

vi, 474 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

"Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Erotics, and Intimacy, 1886-2014 is an anthology of translated Japanese literature about men behaving lovingly, erotically, and intimately with other men. Covering more than 125 years of modern and contemporary Japanese history, this book aims to introduce a diverse array of authors to an English-speaking audience and provide further context for their works. While no anthology can comprehensively represent queer Japanese literature, these selections nonetheless expand our understanding of queerness in Japanese culture" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"A portrait of young Sangorō" = (Shōnen sugata) / by Yamada Bimyō (1886) ; translated by Nicholas Albertson

"The little historian" = (Shō rekishika) / by Nishimura Suimu (1907) ; translated by Kristin Sivak and Chelsea Bernard

"Is this love?" = (Ai ka) / by Yi Kwangsu (1909) ; translated by Janet Poole

"Whistle" = (Kuchibue) / by Orikuchi Shinobu (1914) ; translated by Joseph Boxman

Three stories / by Inagaki Taruho ; translated by Jeffrey Angles. "Karl and the white lamp" = (Kāru to shiroi dentō) (1924, revised 1954) ; "Pince-nez glasses" = (Hana megane) (1924, revised 1969) ; "The false mustache" = (Tsukihige)

Two essays / by Hamao Shirō (1930) / translated by Steve Dodd. "Thoughts on homosexuality" = (Dōseiai kō) ; "More thoughts on homosexuality" = (Futatabi dōseiai ni tsuite)

"Squalid alleyways" = (Rōkō) / by Kataoka Teppei (1934) ; tranlated by Mio Akasako and Amanda Seaman

"Worse for love" = (Ai no shokei) / by "Sakakiyama Tamotsu" (Mishima Yukio) (1960) ; translated by Sam Bett

"I am not going on Sunday" = (Nichiyōbi ni wa boku wa ikanai) / by Mori Mari (1961) ; translated by Robert Tierney

"Sacred headland" = (Seinaru misaki) / by Takahashi Mutsuo (1972) ; translated by Paul McCarthy

"Red palm leaves" = (Akai yashi no ha) / by Medoruma Shun (1992) ; translated by Davinder L. Bhowmik

Selected tanka from Rainstorm (Haku'u) and The book of the friend (Tomo no sho) / by Kasugai Ken (1999) ; translated by Scott Mehl

Selections from Gay poems (Gei poemuzu) / by Tanaka Atsusuke (2014) ; translated by Jeffrey Angles

"The story of a strange belly" = (Kifukutan) / by Fukushima Jirō (2005) ; translated by Bruce Suttmeier

"Time differences" = (Jisa) / by Tawada Yōko (2006) ; translated by Jeffrey Angles

"The playroom" = (Mikkusu rūmu) / by Morii Ryō (2014) ; translated by Stephen D. Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Digital materials related to this title can be found on the Fulcrum platform via the following URL: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12296457" -- page vi.

ISBN:

0472055674

9780472055678

0472075675

9780472075676

OCLC:

1290014924