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 - a place where &quo...

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Main Author:	Treat, John Whittier (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1999
Series:	Ideologies of desire
Subjects:	AIDS (Disease) > Japan Gay men > Sexual behavior > Japan Homosexuality > Japan Homosexuality > Japan > Public opinion Public opinion > Japan Soziale Situation Aids Homosexueller Öffentliche Meinung Sexualverhalten Homosexualität Japan
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 - a place where "there are no homosexuals" - tried to insulate itself from the epidemic Great Mirrors Shattered is a compelling memoir of a gay man thoroughly familiar with the Japanese homosexual underground, a man anxious for his own health and unsure of the relationship he has left behind in the United States. It is also a highly self-aware analysis of Orientalism, which the author defines as "the Western study of everywhere else," and an exploration of how sexual identity conditions knowledge across cultures
Physical Description:	241 S.
ISBN:	0195109236