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Introduction Antonia Levi Levi, Antonia 1
Part One Boys' Love and Global Publishing
1 Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S. Hope Donovan Donovan, Hope 11
2 From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys' Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically Paul M. Malone Malone, Paul M. 23
3 Boys' Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia Yamila Abraham Abraham, Yamila 44
Part Two Genre and Readership
4 Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction Dru Pagliassotti Pagliassotti, Dru 59
5 Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off? Mark John Isola Isola, Mark John 84
6 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash Marni Stanley Stanley, Marni 99
7 "She Should Just Die in a Ditch": Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys' Love Manga M. M. Blair Blair, M. M. 110
8 Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction Tan Bee Kee Tan, Bee Kee 126
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 Akatsuka, Neal K. 159
10 Boys in Love in Boys' Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation Mark McHarry McHarry, Mark 177
11 Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response Kim Senior Senior, Kim 190
12 Gay or Gei? Reading "Realness" in Japanese Yaoi Manga Alexis Hall Hall, Alexis 211
13 Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon Alan Williams Williams, Alan 221
14 Hidden in Straight Sight: Transgressing Gender and Sexuality via BL Uli Meyer Meyer, Uli 232
Glossary 257
About the Contributors 265
Index 267
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Christian Karanicolas
reviewed Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre on May 20, 2013
Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
NB: This book can probably be pretty triggering because coerced sexual contact is a staple of Yaoi
Short Form Review: Sections 1 & 2 are really good often integrating the opinions of fans into their analysis, what drags the volume quite a bit is section 3 where there is an over-reliance of psychoanalytic theories to explain why consumers enjoy boys' love manga even if these reasons contradict the reasons given by actual respondents in section 2. Section 3 also drags a little bit, not ALL the essays are bad and some are quite good the major problem is that because of the limited # of sources available in English that are *theoretical* many of the authors mine the same source (and often quotation) throughout the book, by the time i reached section 3 that was sort of a problem for me especially because some of the arguments raised in that section are raised in early essays and dismissed because they do not reflect fan opinion. The essay on transgender identification and BL Manga has some really... unsettling(?) language use although the fact that there is no standard for writing about trans* theory which i think is one of the problems with anyone writing about the subject.
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