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Boys love manga and beyond : history, culture, and community in Japan / edited by Mark McLelland [and three others] ; contributors, Tomoko Aoyama [and thirteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young gay men--Comic books, strips, etc--Japan.
- Young gay men.
- Romance comic books, strips, etc--Japan.
- Romance comic books, strips, etc.
- Women cartoonists--Japan.
- Women cartoonists.
- Young women--Books and reading--Japan.
- Young women.
- Girls--Books and reading--Japan.
- Girls.
- Sex in popular culture--Japan.
- Sex in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Boys Love (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970's by a group of female artists. By the late 1970's, many amateur women fans were getting involved and creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these encouraged a surge in the number of commercial titles. Today, a wide range of products, produced both by professionals and amateurs, is rapidly gaining a global audience. This book provides an overview of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Japanese Names and Terminology
- An Introduction to "Boys Love" in Japan
- A Genealogy of Boys Love: The Gaze of the Girl and the Bishōnen Body in the Prewar Images of Takabatake Kashō
- A Brief History of Shōnen'ai, Yaoi, and Boys Love
- The Evolution of BL as "Playing with Gender": Viewing the Genesis and Development of BL from a Contemporary Perspective
- What Can We Learn from Japanese Professional BL Writers?: A Sociological Analysis of Yaoi/BL Terminology and Classifications
- What Is Japanese "BL Studies?": A Historical and Analytical Overview
- Politics of Utopia: Fantasy, Pornography, and Boys Love
- Moe Talk: Affective Communication among Female Fans of Yaoi in Japan
- Fujoshi Emergent: Shifting Popular Representations of Yaoi/BL Fandom in Japan
- Do Heterosexual Men Dream of Homosexual Men?: BL Fudanshi and Discourse on Male Feminization
- Representational Appropriation and the Autonomy of Desire in Yaoi/BL
- Queering the Cooking Man: Food and Gender in Yoshinaga Fumi's (BL) Manga
- Regulation of Manga Content in Japan: What Is the Future for BL?
- Works Cited
- About the Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62674-066-6
- OCLC:
- 885378169
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