![]() ![]() ![]() Her attempts to stretch the boundaries of gender are replicated by her efforts to question the limits of the genre. By deftly juxtaposing the marriage system alongside the pornography industry and by comparing heterosexuality with homosexuality, Kirino undermines the sacrosanct position of the Japanese family and questions the institutionalization of heterosexuality. ![]() But at a deeper level Kirino questions contemporary sexuality in Japan, interrogating the agency and authenticity of female desire. At the story level, Kirino takes readers through the dark and dangerous world of the pornography industry, where women are exploited as objects of desire. This article considers the way Kirino Natsuo’s Tenshi ni misuterareta yoru (The night overlooked by angels, 1994) uses pornography to unsettle readers and, by so doing, to force a critical consideration of contemporary social structures as well as the gendering of the detective genre itself. ![]()
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