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Claire Maree is Associate Professor & Reader at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Her research spans the areas of gender, sexuality and language studies, media studies, and queer studies. She is co-editor of Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan and author of two research monographs in Japanese.

• IntroductionQueerqueens: An Introduction Chapter OneBooms: Recycling the Visual and Sonic Image of the Queerqueen Figure Chapter TwoExcess in Print: (Re)tracing Conversational Dialogues Chapter ThreeQueen-personality talk: Writing queens on the Small Screen Chapter FourLinguistic Chaos: Hybrid Animation and the Queerqueen Chapter FiveBeeping Deluxe: Staging Self-censorship and the Limits of Excess Chapter SixHeave-ho: Radical Recontextualization Chapter SevenCyclical Movements or Writing Excess

What linguistic anthropologist Miyako Inoue did for Japanese women's language, Maree has done for onē-kotoba and onē-kyara—the language of queerqueen personalities. While Maree draws on examples from Japanese media, the book is a must-read for anyone working on media of any sort. Maree lays bare the manipulations at play and the heteronormative norms that undergird social media today.