Acknowledgments

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Introduction: The Demimonde as Genre, Metaphor,
and Space

1

Chapter 1: Distance, Containment, and Connoisseurship:
The Privately Dying Demimondes
of Bokutô kidan and “ ‘Iki’ no kôzo”

23

Chapter 2: The Dream Girls and Intoxication
of an Expanding Empire: Dissolving
Boundaries and Exotic Fetishes
in Okamezasa and Chijin no ai

59

Chapter 3: Exceeding the Enclosure of Taboo
and Trauma in the Postwar Demimonde:
“Nikutai no mon,” Topâzu, Kagirinaku tômei
ni chikai burû, and Bara no sôretsu

115

Chapter 4: Claustrophobia Becomes Claustrophilia:
Close Spaces, Slipping Boundaries,
and Internalization in Nagareru's
Shut-off World

173

Chapter 5: Dancing the Interior Demimonde:
Starring Ohno Kazuo as Genet's Divine
and Mishima Yukio as Himself

209

Bibliography

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Index

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