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Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).
List of contents
Introduction: Entering the Fringe
Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook
1. Playing Rough: Consent, Captivity, and Rape Role Play in Taboo Erotic Romances
Sara K. Howe
2. Violating the Vampire: Twihard Fan Fiction as Rape Fantasy
Jane M. Kubiesa
3. A Kink of One's Own: Subversion, Disorientation, and the Feminine Voice in Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School
Fe Lorraine Reyes
4. Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34
Brian Watson and Bobby Derie
5. It's a (Bound and Gagged) Living: Sweet Gwendoline and the "Danger Girl" Archetype
Sean Shannon
6. Kinking the Canon: Pornography and Prose in Fingersmith and The Handmaiden
Susan E. Cook
7. "To Test the Limits and Break Through": How Femslash Rejects Straight-Coding of Queer Experiences in Disney's Frozen
Whitney S. May
8. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan Fiction
Jonathan A. Rose
9. "Roll for Seduction": Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan Fiction
Josh Zimmerman and Antonnet Johnson
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook - Contributions by Bobby Derie; Antonnet Johnson; Jane M. Kubiesa; Whitney S. May; Fe Lorraine Reyes; Jonathan A. Rose; Sean Shannon; Brian Watson and Josh Zimmerman
Summary
Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).
