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Queer transfigurations : boys love media in Asia /
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Asia pop!
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction: Boys Love (BL) Media and Its Asian Transfigurations / James Welker
- Part I : East Asia. Between BL and Slash : Danmei fiction, transcultural mediation, and changing gender norms in contemporary China / Yanrui Xu and Ling Yang
- Breaking the structural silence : the sociological function of Danmei novels in contemporary China / Xi Lin
- BL as a "resource of hope" among Chinese gay men in Japan / Thomas Baudinette
- Straight men, gay buddies : the Chinese BL boom and its impact on male homosociality / Wei Wei
- "Send them to Mars!" : boys love erotica and civil rights in Hong Kong / Katrien Jacobs and Han Hau Lai
- The commercialization and popularization of boys love in South Korea / Jungmin Kwon
- Rethinking the meaning of boys love in an era of feminism : online discourse on "Leaving BL" in late 2010s Korea / Hyojin Kim
- Repression or revolution? : on the Taiwanese BL fan community's reactions to the same-sex marriage legalization movement / Peiti Wang
- Part II : Southeast Asia. Hiding in plain sight : boys love content at Indonesia's "Comic Frontier" / Kania Arini Sukotjo
- Dissonant passions : Indonesian boys love fans' identity negotiation and perspectives on LGBT issues / Gita Pramudita Prameswari
- BL coupling in a different light : Filipino fans envisioning an alternative model of intimacy / Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin
- Docile BL bodies : boys love under state and societal censorship in Singapore / Aerin Lai
- The queer if limited effects of boys love manga fandom in Thailand / Poowin Bunyavejchewin
- Faen of gay Faen : realizing boys love in Thailand betwixt imagination and existence / Kang-Nguyen Byung'chu Dredge
- Part III : South Asia. Desi Desu : sex, sexuality, and BL consumption in urban India / Lakshmi Menon
- Part IV : Border Crossing. Glocalization of boys love Dōjinshi in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia / Kristine Michelle Santos
- On the psychology, physicality, and communication strategies of male fans of BL in East Asia : a cross-cultural analysis of men's desires to "become" Fudanshi / Kazumi Nagaike
- From legends to games to homoerotic fiction : Dynasty Warriors BL texts from China, Japan, and Taiwan / Asako P. Saito
- Afterword : boys love as a world-shaping genre / James Welker.