Queerqueen

Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-086960-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maree, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Queerqueens: An Introduction

- Chapter One

- Booms: Recycling the Visual and Sonic Image of the Queerqueen Figure

- Chapter Two

- Excess in Print: (Re)tracing Conversational Dialogues

- Chapter Three

- Queen-personality talk: Writing queens on the Small Screen

- Chapter Four

- Linguistic Chaos: Hybrid Animation and the Queerqueen

- Chapter Five

- Beeping Deluxe: Staging Self-censorship and the Limits of Excess

- Chapter Six

- Heave-ho: Radical Recontextualization

- Chapter Seven

- Cyclical Movements or Writing Excess

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Maree 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.