1st Edition
Queer Intimacies and Cultural Dissent in Japanese Life Quiet Subversion
Introduction: Quiet Subversion—Voicing the Queer Present in Japan 1. Voice as Praxis—Queer Critique and Allyship Across Japan’s Institutions 2. Resonant Bodies— Art, Affect, and Queer Voice in Japanese Cultural Activism 3. Queer Frames—The Aesthetics and Politics of Japanese LGBTQ+ Cinema 4. Queer Aesthetics in Japanese Manga—Voices, Visibilities, and Intimate Worlds 5. Words Against Silence—The Political Power of Queer Writing in Japan 6. Solitary Dances of Identity—Queer Introspection in Japanese Fiction 7. Entwined Lives, Hidden Desires—Queer Relationality and Desire in Fiction 8. Queer Interventions in the Japanese State—Political Advocacy and the Rewriting of Representation 9. LGBTQ+ Scholars in Japan—Bending Epistemologies and Expanding Horizons 10. Queer Across Borders—Japanese LGBTQ+ Lives in the Diaspora Conclusion: Quiet Subversion and the Echo of Voice Postscript: On Listening Forward
Biography
Masami Tamagawa is Senior Teaching Professor of Japanese at Skidmore College, USA. His research focuses on the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in Japan, queer diaspora, and cultural activism. He is the author of The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World (Routledge, 2022).
