Jim Reichert Male Fiction Novels sku-42369260 Hardcover

Jim Reichert's In the Company of Men is a hardcover book listed under Fiction Novels with the gender category Male. It examines representations of male-male sexuality in literature of Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912). The book considers how writers responded to the subject's place in Edo-period literary culture (1600-1868), the stigma attached to it in Europe and America, and Japan's drive to modernize.

It also examines heterosexualization in Meiji literature and the use of male-male sexuality as a cultural symbol by opponents of modernization. SKU sku-42369260.