Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature by Jeffrey Angles

Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature

Jeffrey Angles

312 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. Writing the Love of Boys looks at the response to this mindset dur...

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