The demimonde in Japanese literature
Subtitle: sexuality and the literary Karyûkai
By: Cynthia Gralla
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604977288
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Distance, containment, and connoisseurship: the privately dying demimondes of Bokuto kidan and "Iki" no kōzō; title: The dream girls and intoxication of an expanding empire: dissolving boundaries and exotic fetishes in Okamezasa and Chijin no ai; title: Exceeding the enclosure of taboo and trauma in the postwar demimonde: Nikutai no mon, Topazu, Kagirinaku tomei ni chikai buru, and Bara no soretsu; title: Claustrophobia becomes "claustrophilia": close spaces, narrowness, slipping boundaries, and internalization in Nagareru's shut-off world; title: Dancing the interior demimonde: starring Ohno Kazuo as Genet's divine and Mishima Yukio as himself.