Boys’ Love Manga: Book Update

Academic, Boys' Love / Yaoi Comments (5)

Our yaoi book has a new title and a tentative cover that I can’t reveal in its entirety because the art is still under negotiation. If we get permission to use it, however, I promise it’ll be one of the most eye-catching covers for an academic book that you’ve ever seen!

Our table of contents is listed below; please keep in mind that the chapter names are still subject to change at the publisher’s request. Nevertheless, it should give you a good idea of what you can expect from the volume.

We’re very excited about Boys’ Love Manga — it includes works by authors who are academics, independent scholars, and publishers and mangaka; who identify as male, female, and other/both; and who identify as gay, lesbian, queer, and straight. Among the academics, some are entering or in graduate school, while others hold various ranks as professors, including that enviable rank of “retired.” The theoretical approaches taken in the essays include anthropological, economic, feminist, historical, literary, psychological, queer, and sociological perspectives on boys’ love as it has been received in Australia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, and the United States … not to mention that transnational community, the Web.

Boys’ Love Manga is scheduled for the Spring 2010 catalog from McFarland, so be certain to ask your libraries and bookstore to put in an order once the catalog is out!

Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
Editors: Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti
ISBN: 978-0-7864-4195-2

Table of Contents

Introduction
Antonia Levi

Part One:  Boys’ Love and Global Publishing

1. The Gift of Anime: Cooperative Distribution of Boys Love 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 Economically
Paul M. Malone

3. Boys’ Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia
Yamila Abraham

Part Two: Genre and Readership

4. Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction
Dru Pagliassotti

5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off?
Mark John Isola

6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash
Marni Stanley

7. “She Should Just Die in a Ditch”: Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys’ Love Manga
M. M. Blair

8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction
Tan Bee Kee

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 Akatsuka

10. Boys in Love in Boys’ Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation
Mark McHarry

11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response
Mark Vicars and Kim Senior

12. Gay or Gei? Reading “Realness” in Japanese Yaoi Manga
Alexis Hall

13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon
Alan Williams

14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality via BL
Uli Meyer

Glossary
List of Contributors

drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2009