The Missionary and the Libertine. Love and War in East and West.
London. Faber and Faber. 1996. Stock ID #212766 Collection of essays by Ian Buruma discussing how Westerners have been attracted and repelled by Asian sensuality. "He explores the nature of Japanese sexuality in movies, and the erotic dreams of young girls in Banana Yoshimoto's work. He examines the cultural confusion in individuals - Benazir Bhutto, Imelda Marcos, Yukio Mishima and V.S. Naipaul - and he goes on to discuss the last days of Hong Kong as a British colony, the Olympic Games in South Korea, the legacies of Pearl Harbor and of Hiroshima, Japan-bashing, racial war, and the life of a black American baseball-player in Japan." Publisher's description. When referring to this item please quote stockid 212766.
xxiii + 308pp, bibliography, contents browned, dustjacket little shelf worn, very good hardback copy.
Price: $26.00 AU