Contact Moments

Contact MomentsThis book sheds light on 'contact moments' between Japanese male queer culture and that of the West in the postwar period, and critiques various contemporary examples of persistent Orientalism and nativism. Focusing on a range of Japanese as well as English male queer materials including magazines, memoirs and cybertexts, Suganuma shows how the interactions of the two cultures affected the subject formation process of queer selves. The instances

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such is thy pleasure

An Egyptian Childhood (1929)

This book provides an overview of lasers

These volumes examine and lavishly illustrate the excavations and finds

symbolic and grounded in experience

This book sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions

colonialism and transnational cultural encounters

'Umar is recorded to have made a journey to Syria

the transition from scribal to print culture

and his role in the professionalization of archaeology