Boys' Love Manga

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.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionANTONIA LEVI      Part One: Boys’ Love and Global Publishing1. 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 EconomicallyPAUL M. MALONE      3. Boys’ Love Thrives in Conservative IndonesiaYAMILA ABRAHAM      Part Two: Genre and Readership4. Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic FictionDRU PAGLIASSOTTI      5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting OffMARK JOHN ISOLA      6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and SlashMARNI STANLEY      7. “She Should Just Die in a Ditch”: Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys’ Love MangaM. M. BLAIR      8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi FanfictionTAN BEE KEE      Part Three: Boys’ Love and Perceptions of the Queer9. Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys’ Love MangaNEAL K. AKATSUKA      10. Boys in Love in Boys’ Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject FormationMARK MCHARRY            11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader ResponseMARK VICARS and KIM SENIOR      12. Gay or Gei? Reading “Realness” in Japanese Yaoi MangaALEXIS HALL      13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi PhenomenonALAN WILLIAMS      14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality viaULI MEYER      Glossary     About the Contributors      Index

“this volume, with its cross-cultural approach combined with a strong focus on fannish activities, is certainly a valuable contribution to the [manga studies] movement”—Transformative Works and Cultures; “At last, this collection pries open the last of the closet doors and allows for the analysis of the narratives of gay, transgendered, and intersexual subjects to emerge. Manga have been a unique source and archive of such work, slowly developing what has become a massive, global fan base. Each of the narratives in this anthology takes on a particular facet of the complicated and complex area of culture that surrounds the boys' love genre, moving the discussion, finally, out into the light of day.”—Frenchy Lunning, editor-in-chief of Mechademia and professor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design; “Boys’ Love Manga is a very welcome contribution to the field of manga and anime studies. It has something to offer in particular to scholars of gender and sexuality, of globalization, and of new media.”—James Welker, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.