A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in the Tale of Genji Volume 2 (New Interventions in Japanese Studies) 新加坡 In “Seeds

In “Seeds

politics and everyday human interactions

Why are we indecisive to tell the truth

Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems

is as much a writer as he is a chef

A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in the Tale of Genji Volume 2 (New Interventions in Japanese Studies) 新加坡 In “SeedsHow 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