Description
Book SynopsisThrough close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion.
Trade Review"Margherita Long's study of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro is a welcome addition to the body of work on this author in English . . .
This Perversion Called Love addresses key issues of Japan in its modern era: gender, nationalism, language, and modernity itself. It is a book that expands our horizons." -- Eve Zimmerman *
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"By staging intricate textual conversations between the modernist Tanizaki and the works of Freud, Lacan, and feminist theorists, Long renders the latter foreign, that is to say she makes them new and once again provocative." -- Elizabeth Weed * Brown University *
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This Perversion Called Love is one of the most important books ever written on feminism, psychoanalysis, and Japanese literature. Long finds that Tanizaki's fiction portrays a radical relation to the mother unhindered by abjection, and a heterosexual love in which the woman is the figure of plenitude rather than lack." -- Nina Cornyetz * New York University *
