[Linganth] Claire Maree on queerqueen

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on CaMP anthropology, Laura Miller interviews Claire Maree on her 
new book,
  queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media. University of Oxford 
Press.

You can find it here:
https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

The press blurb:

 From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, 
Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a 
diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive 
styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. 
Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender 
norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the 
"authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in 
Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices 
of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of 
on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in 
need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, 
self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this 
perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce 
stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the 
business of mainstream entertainment.
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