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Martin, Fran. "Girls who love boys’ love: Japanese homoerotic manga as trans-national Taiwan culture." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 13. (2012). Added by: joachim (7/19/12, 1:25 PM) Last edited by: joachim (7/19/12, 1:30 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2012.689707 BibTeX citation key: Martin2012b Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: China, Fandom, Gender, Interculturalism, Japan, Manga, Taiwan Creators: Martin Collection: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies |
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Based on interviews with 30 female readers of BL (‘boys’ love’) manga conducted in Taipei in 2005, this paper analyses the BL scene in Taiwan from the perspective of its social utility as a discursive arena enabling women collectively to think through transforming social ideologies around gender and sexuality. This form of participatory pop culture is most interesting, I argue, not because of any unilateral subversiveness vis-à-vis culturally dominant understandings of (feminine) gender or (homo)sexuality—although it does often contest such dominant understandings. Rather, it is important in providing a space for the collective articulation of young women’s in-process thinking on these questions. The paper also engages with the Japaneseness of the genre as consumed in Taiwan in order to consider the imaginative function that its perceived cultural ‘otherness’ performs.
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