Boys' love manga : essays on the sexual ambiguity and cross-cultural fandom of the genre / edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry and Dru Pagliassotti.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Jefferson, NC [etc.] : McFarland & Co., cop. 2010.Description: viii, 272 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780786441952 (pbk)
078644195X (pbk)

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DDC classification:

741.5 MAN

Contents:

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 -- 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 -- 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 BL / Uli Meyer.

Subject: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	741.5 LEV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100533091
3 Day Loan	LSAD Library Short Loan	741.5 MAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100568709

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"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. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.