TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson, Reginald
AB  - A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.   How 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.
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48596
KW  - Social Science
KW  - LGBTQ+ Studies
KW  - History
KW  - Asia
KW  - Japan
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Asian
KW  - Japanese
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48596/1/external_content.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48596/1/external_content.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48596/1/external_content.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69668
PB  - University of California Press
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9780520382558
TI  - A Proximate Remove : Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (Edition 1)
ER  - 
