Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.
Contents
Blow the blood-stained bugle : Murayama Kaita and the language of personal sensation -- Treading the edges of the known world : homoerotic fantasies in Murayama Kaita's prose -- The appeal of the strange : same-sex desire in Edogawa Ranpo's mystery fiction -- (Re)discovering same-sex love : Ranpo and the creation of Queer history -- Uninscribing the adolescent body : aesthetic resistance in Taruho's writing -- Conclusion : postwar legacies.