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Boys love manga and beyond : history, culture, and community in Japan

Title
Boys love manga and beyond : history, culture, and community in Japan / edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
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Additional Authors
  • McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020
  • Nagaike, Kazumi
  • Suganuma, Katsuhiko
  • Welker, James
Description
ix, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"A critical examination of the "beautiful boy" love comics that have long enthralled fans in Japan and now worldwide"--Page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Comic books, strips, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index.
Contents
An introduction to "Boys love" in Japan / Mark McLelland and James Welker -- A genealogy of Boys love : the gaze of the girl and the Bishōnen body in the prewar images of Takabatake Kashō / Barbara Hartley -- A brief history of Shōnen'ai, Yaoi, and Boys love / James Welker -- The evolution of BL as "playing with gender" : viewing the genesis and development of BL from a contemporary perspective / Fujimoto Yukari (translated by Joanne Quimby) -- What can we learn from Japanese professional BL writers? : a sociological analysis of Yaoi/BL terminology and classifications / Kazuko Suzuki -- What is Japanese "BL studies?" : a historical and analytical overview / Kazumi Nagaike and Tomoko Aoyama -- Politics of utopia : fantasy, pornography, and Boys love / Rio Otomo -- Moe talk : affective communication among female fans of Yaoi in Japan / Patrick W. Galbraith -- Fujoshi emergent : shifting popular representations of Yaoi/BL fandom in Japan / Jeffry T. Hester -- Do heterosexual men dream of homosexual men? : BL fudanshi and discourse on male feminization / Kazumi Nagaike -- Representational appropriation and the automony of desire in Yaoi/BL / Ishida Hitoshi (translated by Katsuhiko Suganuma) -- Queering the cooking man : food and gender in Yoshinaga Fumi's (BL) manga / Tomoko Aoyama -- Regulation of manga content in Japan : what is the future for BL? / Mark McLelland.
Call Number
JFE 19-1560
ISBN
  • 9781496807762
  • 1496807766
  • 9781628461190
  • 1628461195
LCCN
  • 2014029775
  • 40024598096
OCLC
878837806
Title
Boys love manga and beyond : history, culture, and community in Japan / edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker.
Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-292) and index.
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Added Author
McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020, editor.
Nagaike, Kazumi, editor.
Suganuma, Katsuhiko, editor.
Welker, James, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Boys' love manga and beyond. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015 9781628461206 (DLC) 2014031114
Other Standard Identifier
40024598096
Research Call Number
JFE 19-1560
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