Boys' Love Manga

""Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Autorentext
Antonia Levi is a retired professor of Japanese history and popular culture. She is the author of one previous book and numerous articles on Japanese anime and manga. Mark McHarry is an independent scholar of both contemporary and Edo-period Japanese culture. His essays have been published in Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television and LGBT Identity and Online New Media, as well as other journals. Dru Pagliassotti is a professor of communication at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks and the author of several books.

Zusammenfassung
This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love, a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, and how it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.

Inhalt
Table of Contents
Introduction
ANTONIA LEVI

Part One: Boys' Love and Global Publishing
1. Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S.
HOPE DONOVAN
2. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys' Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically
PAUL M. MALONE
3. Boys' Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia
YAMILA ABRAHAM

Part Two: Genre and Readership
4. Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction
DRU PAGLIASSOTTI
5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off
MARK JOHN ISOLA
6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash
MARNI STANLEY
7. "She Should Just Die in a Ditch": Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys' Love Manga
M. M. BLAIR
8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction
TAN BEE KEE

Part Three: Boys' Love and Perceptions of the Queer
9. Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys' Love Manga
NEAL K. AKATSUKA
10. Boys in Love in Boys' Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation
MARK MCHARRY
11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response
MARK VICARS and KIM SENIOR
12. Gay or Gei? Reading "Realness" in Japanese Yaoi Manga
ALEXIS HALL
13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon
ALAN WILLIAMS
14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality via
ULI MEYER

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