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"Mobile Cultures" is a feast of a collection. This compelling anthology renders the mediated queer realities of Asia within a more dynamic global frame. Studies of the Internet, cinema, and other technologies unmoor queer Asia from its static and sedentary locations. A necessary addition to the burgeoning field of transnational queer cultural studies!"--Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of "Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism"
List of contents
Introduction: Beep--Click--Link / Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue 1
I. Interfaces: Global/Local Intersections
I Knew It Was Me: Mass Media, “Globalization," and Lesbian and Gay Indonesians / Tom Boellstorff 21
Japanese Queerscapes: Global/Local Intersections on the Internet / Mark McLelland 52
Guided Fan Fiction: Western “Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts / Veruska Sabucco 70
Syncretism and Synchronicity: Queer'n'Asian Cyberspace in 1990s Taiwan and Korea / Chris Berry and Fran Martin 87
Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal / David Mullaly 115
II. Mobile Sites: New Screens, New Scenes
Singaporean Queering of the Internet: Toward a New Form of Cultural Transmission of Rights Discourse / Baden Offord 133
Pop and
ma: The Landscape of Japanese Commodity Characters and Subjectivity / Larissa Hjorth 158
From Khush List to Gay Bombay: Virtual Webs of Real People / Sandip Roy 180
III. Circuits: Regional Zones
Queer Voyeurism and the Pussy-Matrix in Shu Lea Cheang's Japanese Pornography / Katrien Jacobs 201
Sexing the City: Malaysia's New “Cyberlaws" and Cyberjaya's Queer Success / Olivia Khoo 222
Paging “New Asia": Sambal Is a Feedback Loop, Coconut Is a Code, Rice Is a System / Audrey Yue 245
Bibliography 267
Contributors 293
Index 297
About the author
Chris Berry, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue, eds.
