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Note about Japanese Names / vii Introduction / 1 1 Blow the Bloodstained Bugle Murayama Kaita and the Language of Personal Sensation / 37 2 Treading the Edges of the Known World Homoerotic Fantasies in Murayama Kaita’s Prose / 75 3 The Appeal of the Strange Same-Sex Desire in Edogawa Ranpo’s Mystery Fiction / 107 4 (Re)Discovering Same-Sex Love Ranpo and the Creation of Queer History / 143 5 Uninscribing the Adolescent Body Aesthetic Resistance in Taruho’s Writing / 193 Conclusion Postwar Legacies / 225 Acknowledgments / 247 Notes / 251 Bibliography / 273 Index / 291 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...

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