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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Reginald
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-23T15:11:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-23T15:11:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20210723_9780520382558_2
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50162
dc.description.abstractHow might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls “proximate removes” suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances. “A brave and groundbreaking work. Jackson’s queer reading of The Tale of Genji— where ‘queer’ does not index a particular sexual identity or mode of erotic exchange but, rather, provides a provocative critical lens—throws into sharp relief practices of Heian sexual politics. Intimately researched and engagingly written.” CHARLOTTE EUBANKS, author of Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan “A Proximate Remove offers a bold and provocative reading of the eleventh-century classic The Tale of Genji. It begins the much-needed task of exposing the ideological limitations that define the parameters of existing premodern Japanese studies.” ATSUKO UEDA, author of Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868–1912)
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of arten_US
dc.subject.otherAsian Studies
dc.subject.otherQueer Theory
dc.titleA Proximate Remove
dc.title.alternativeQueering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.106
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520382558
oapen.relation.isbn9780520382541
oapen.imprintUniversity of California Press
oapen.pages252
oapen.place.publicationOakland


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