Queer Transfigurations : : Boys Love Media in Asia / / ed. by James Welker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baudinette, Thomas,; Bunyavejchewin, Poowin,; Byung’chu Dredge, Kang-Nguyễn,; Fermin, Tricia Abigail Santos,; Jacobs, Katrien,; Kang-Nguyễn, Dredge Byung’chu,; Kim, Hyojin,; Kwon, Jungmin,; Lai, Aerin,; Lai, Han Hau,; Lin, Xi,; Menon, Lakshmi,; Nagaike, Kazumi,; Prameswari, Gita Pramudita,; Pramudita Prameswari, Gita,; Saito, Asako P.,; Santo, Asako P.,; Santos Fermin, Tricia Abigail,; Santos, Kristine Michelle,; Sukotjo, Kania Arini,; Wang, Peiti,; Wei, Wei,; Welker, James,; Xu, Yanrui,; Yang, Ling,
• HerausgeberIn: Welker, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Asia Pop!
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 11 b&w illustrations

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 its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL’s male–male romantic and sexual relationships have found a particularly receptive home in other parts of Asia, where strong local fan communities and locally produced BL works have garnered a following throughout the region, taking on new meanings and engendering widespread cultural effects.Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia—and beyond. Contributors draw on their expertise in an array of disciplines and fields, including anthropology, fan studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, political science, and sociology to shed light on BL media and its fandoms.Queer Transfigurations reveals the far-reaching influences of the BL genre, demonstrating that it is truly transnational and transcultural in diverse cultural contexts. It has also helped bring about positive changes in the status of LGBT(Q) people and communities as well as enlighten local understandings of gender and sexuality throughout Asia. In short, Queer Transfigurations shows that, some fifty years after the first BL manga appeared in print, the genre is continuing to reverberate and transform lives.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language and Names -- 1 Introduction: Boys Love (BL) Media and Its Asian Transfigurations -- Part I East Asia -- China -- 2 Between BL and Slash: Danmei Fiction, Transcultural Mediation, and Changing Gender Norms in Contemporary China -- 3 Breaking the Structural Silence: The Sociological Function of Danmei Novels in Contemporary China -- 4 BL as a “Resource of Hope” among Chinese Gay Men in Japan -- 5 Straight Men, Gay Buddies: The Chinese BL Boom and Its Impact on Male Homosociality -- Hong Kong -- 6 “Send Them to Mars!”: Boys Love Erotica and Civil Rights in Hong Kong -- South Korea -- 7 The Commercialization and Popularization of Boys Love in South Korea -- 8 Rethinking the Meaning of Boys Love in an Era of Feminism: Online Discourse on “Leaving BL” in Late 2010s Korea -- Taiwan -- 9 Repression or Revolution?: On the Taiwanese BL Fan Community’s Reactions to the Same-Sex Marriage Legalization Movement -- Part II Southeast Asia -- Indonesia -- 10 Hiding in Plain Sight: Boys Love Content at Indonesia’s “Comic Frontier” -- 11 Dissonant Passions: Indonesian Boys Love Fans’ Identity Negotiation and Perspectives on LGBT Issues -- Philippines -- 12 BL Coupling in a Different Light: Filipino Fans Envisioning an Alternative Model of Intimacy -- Singapore -- 13 Docile BL Bodies: Boys Love under State and Societal Censorship in Singapore -- Thailand -- 14 The Queer if Limited Effects of Boys Love Manga Fandom in Thailand -- 15 Faen of Gay Faen: Realizing Boys Love in Thailand betwixt Imagination and Existence -- Part III South Asia -- India -- 16 Desi Desu: Sex, Sexuality, and BL Consumption in Urban India -- Part IV Border Crossing -- 17 Glocalization of Boys Love Dōjinshi in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia -- 18 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 -- 19 From Legends to Games to Homoerotic Fiction: Dynasty Warriors BL Texts from China, Japan, and Taiwan -- Afterword: Boys Love as a World-Shaping Genre -- Contributors -- Index