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McHarry, Mark. "(Un)gendering the homoerotic body: Imagining subjects in boys’ love and yaoi." Transformative Works and Cultures 8 2011. Accessed 2May. 2013. <http://journal.transfor ... wc/article/view/257/250>. Added by: joachim (5/2/13, 3:05 PM) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3983/twc.2011.0257 BibTeX citation key: McHarry2011 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Adaptation, Fandom, Gender, Identity, Literature, Manga, Randformen des Comics Creators: McHarry Collection: Transformative Works and Cultures |
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| Attachments | URLs http://journal.tra ... ticle/view/257/250 |
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Language is a condition for a subject’s formation, and identity is a factor in a subject’s understanding of self. The Japanese-derived literary forms boys’ love and yaoi portray male subjects as valorizing and acting on same-sex erotic desire, yet with little or no sense of possessing a same-sex desiring identity. Following Elizabeth Grosz, Julia Kristeva, and Michel Foucault, a reading is performed of a Western yaoi fan fic to explore how subjects in yaoi and boys’ love enter into language, and hence subjectivity.
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