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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Treat, John Whittier (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:	Ideologies of desire.
Subjects:	Homosexuality > Japan. AIDS (Disease) > Japan. Gay men > Sexual behavior > Japan. Homosexuality > Japan > Public opinion. Homosexualité > Japon. Sida > Japon. Opinion publique > Japon. Homosexuels masculins > Sexualité > Japon. Homosexualité > Japon > Opinion publique. AIDS (Disease) Gay men > Sexual behavior Homosexuality Homosexuality > Public opinion Public opinion Japan Aids Homosexualität Homosexueller Sexualverhalten Soziale Situation Öffentliche Meinung Homosexuality. Gay men.
Online Access:	Book review (H-Net) Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Certain Details: September
Stray Dogs, Ready Cash: October
New Words: November
The Common Good: December
The Theory of the Japanese People: January
Morals Business: February
The Social Situation: March
Special Friends: April
A Play of Muscles: May
Syntax, Et Cetera: June
M. Andrew: July
The Great Sympathetic Paradox: August
My Tokyo: September.