| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 autonomy 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 |
| 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 1970s by a group of female artists. By the late 1970s, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Boys love (Manga) -- History and criticism
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Manga (Comic books) -- History and criticism
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Male homosexuality in comics.
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Romance comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Gay erotic comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism
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Women cartoonists -- Japan
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Young women -- Books and reading -- Japan
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Girls -- Books and reading -- Japan
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Sex in popular culture -- Japan
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Fantasy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Boys love (Manga)
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Gay erotic comic books, strips, etc.
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Girls -- Books and reading
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Male homosexuality in comics
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Manga (Comic books)
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Romance comic books, strips, etc.
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Sex in popular culture
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Women cartoonists
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Young women -- Books and reading
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Comics criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020, editor
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Nagaike, Kazumi, editor.
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Suganuma, Katsuhiko, editor.
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Welker, James, editor.
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| LC no. |
2014031114 |
| ISBN |
9781628461206 |
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1628461209 |
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9781626740662 |
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1626740666 |
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9781626743106 |
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162674310X |
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