Great mirrors shattered : homosexuality, orientalism, and Japan /
In 1986 John Whittier Treat went to Tokyo on sabbatical to write a book about the literature of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But once there, he found himself immersed in the emergence of a new kind of Holocaust, AIDS, and the sweeping denial, hysteria, and projection with which Japan tried to insulate it...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | Ideologies of desire.
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | In 1986 John Whittier Treat went to Tokyo on sabbatical to write a book about the literature of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But once there, he found himself immersed in the emergence of a new kind of Holocaust, AIDS, and the sweeping denial, hysteria, and projection with which Japan tried to insulate itself from the epidemic. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 241 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241). |
| ISBN: | 0195109236 9780195109238 |