Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction

by J. Keith Vincent

Until the late nineteenth century, Japan could boast of an elaborate cultural tradition surrounding the love and desire that men felt for other men. By the first years of the twentieth century, however, as heterosexuality became associated with an enlightened modernity, love between men was increasingly branded as "feudal" or immature. The resulting rupture in what has been called the "male homosocial continuum" constitutes one of the most significant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674067126
• ISBN13: 9780674067127
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"