Queer Transfigurations Boys Love Media in Asia

About the author

James Welker is a professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan.

Summary

Offers the first detailed examination of the boys love (BL) media explosion across Asia. The book brings together twenty-one scholars exploring BL media, its fans, and its sociocultural impacts in a dozen countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia - and beyond.

Product details

• Assisted by: James Welker (Editor), Allison Alexy (Editor)
• Authors: Thomas Baudinette, Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin, Katrien Jacobs, Han Hau Lai, Kang-Nguyen, Hyojin Kim, Jungmin Kwon, Aerin Lai
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.02.2023
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780824892845
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-9284-5
• Pages: 312
• Dimensions (packing): 15.1 x 22.6 x 2.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 434 g
• Series: Asia Pop!
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Graphic Novels-Manga, ART / Popular Culture, ART / Asian / Japanese, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ / General, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / East Asian Style / Manga / General