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This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these complex topics. This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and general audiences seeking to make sense of the ways in which bisexuality is represented in popular culture.
- Dr Helen Bowes-Catton, Senior Lecturer, The Open University, UK
This book explores the multifaceted representations of bisexuality within the cultural imagination, focusing on how bisexuality is portrayed and understood through literature, television, and media. By examining these diverse forms, this collection addresses the critical need to understand bisexuality s crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of sexual identity.
Bisexuality and Popular Culture considers how bisexuality disrupts traditional binaries and offers new frameworks for understanding bisexual identity.
Sommario
Chapter 1: Introduction: Bisexual (In)Visibility and/in Popular Culture.- Chapter 2: Reading Bisexual Stereotypes: Liminal Tricksters, Greedy Sluts, and Bisexual Audience Perspectives.- Chapter 3: Bisexual Spaces, Trauma, and the Healing Potential of Pop Culture.- Chapter 4: The Bi Who Loved Me: Bi-Erotic Possibilities in Ian Fleming s James Bond Novels.- Chapter 5: Missing Between the Margins: Bisexuality and Sexual Power Dynamics in Madeline Miller s The Song of Achilles.- Chapter 6: Trauma, Guilt, and Commitment: Deconstructive Bisexuality and Queer Desire in Hanya Yanagihara s A Little Life.- Chapter 7: No Sex Please, We re Bi: Young Adult Literature and the Wholesome, Monosexy Bisexual in Heartstopper and Imogen, Obviously.- Chapter 8: Gay, Queer, or Dimensional?: Modes of Reading Bisexuality in Torchwood.- Chapter 9: Mainstreaming Bisexuality since Orange is the New Black: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bisexual, and Beyond.- Chapter 10: (Un)seen and (Un)spoken: The Challenge of Representing Bisexuality and Multiraciality in Grown-ish.- Chapter 11: Sniffing out a Psycho : An Analysis of Bisexual Representation in Killing Eve.- Chapter 12: Bisexual Spaces and Fantasy Realms in The Owl House and Adventure Time.- Chapter 13: Bi the Player s Handbook: Representations and Receptions of Bisexuality in Critical Role Campaigns.
Info autore
Ian Kinane
is Reader in Literature and Popular Culture and Director of the Centre for Society, Culture, and Social Change at the University of Roehampton, UK. His books include
On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction
(2024),
Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence
(2021),
Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
(2021),
Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade
(2019),
Theorising Literary Islands
(2016), and (with Downey and Parker)
Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place
(2016). He is also the general editor of the online, open-access
International Journal of James Bond Studies
and the editor of the forthcoming
Cambridge Companion to Ian Fleming
.
Riassunto
This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these complex topics. This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and general audiences seeking to make sense of the ways in which bisexuality is represented in popular culture.”
- Dr Helen Bowes-Catton, Senior Lecturer, The Open University, UK
This book explores the multifaceted representations of bisexuality within the cultural imagination, focusing on how bisexuality is portrayed and understood through literature, television, and media. By examining these diverse forms, this collection addresses the critical need to understand bisexuality’s crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of sexual identity.
Bisexuality and Popular Culture
considers how bisexuality disrupts traditional binaries and offers new frameworks for understanding bisexual identity.
