drupagliassotti @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday, as I was (re)defining boys’ love, I spent a few moments wondering if I wanted to add the word “heterosexual” to my definition: a narrative about the romantic or erotic relationship between two or more male characters that has been created with the intention of appealing to a female audience.
I quickly decided not to, […]
drupagliassotti @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I was glancing through the Yaoi entry on Wikipedia and felt dissatisfied by the way the term was defined there. I’d like to propose a slight change in usage.
In Japan, the genre is called boys’ love, Bōizu Rabu, and I believe that term should be used in English, as well, to label the broad […]
drupagliassotti @ July 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The “Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers” workshop at the University of Wollongong was full of fantastic papers, some of which will show up in issue 21 of Intersections and some of which may become a book — negotiations are apparently ongoing. Mark McLelland and Fran Martin organized the event and did a wonderful job.
I’ll […]
drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just wanted to say a quick “g’day” to everyone from Australia. This is a beautiful country! I’m currently in Wollongong at an internet cafe — the Japanese Transnational Fandoms workshop starts tomorrow, but today I’m just wandering around. I saw a fantastic performance of Hamlet last night in the Sydney Opera House. I bought same-day […]
drupagliassotti @ June 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m headed Down Under from June 29 - July 8 for a conference on Japanese Transnational Fandoms at the University of Wollongong. I will, of course, be talking about yaoi — in this case, about how U.S. publishers are taking this originally Japanese genre and adapting it for the West.
I find the “translation” of boys’ […]
drupagliassotti @ June 2, 2008 # 2 Comments
This is a first attempt at tracking the spread of boys’ love through the U.S., and I’d like readers’ revisions and additions; if you’ll make ‘em in Comments, I’ll update this page accordingly.
I’m primarily looking at official releases, although I’ll welcome information about “underground” releases — first scanlation groups, etc. I also need […]
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
CALL FOR PAPERS
Girls Doing Boys Doing Boys:
Japanese Boys’ Love Anime and Manga in a Globalized World
Edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, & Dru Pagliassotti
This edited, interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine the new representations of same-sex attracted males in boys’ love and/or yaoi — that is, male same-sex romance or erotica as featured in […]