Queer Transfigurations : : Boys Love Media in Asia /

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

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...

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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!
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 11 b&w illustrations
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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

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