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Queering Shame and the Wound of Ethnicity
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 48, Number 1, March 2015
- pp. 99-114
- 10.1353/mos.2015.0009
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay attends to a question raised by a Japanese philosopher about the connection of an American anthropologist’s analysis of Japan as “shame culture” to her queerness. The question opens a poetical and conceptual wound and responding to it takes us to the interstitial areas of postcolonial critique.