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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues,<br>
Today on CaMP anthropology, Laura Miller interviews Claire Maree
on her new book, </font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Â queerqueen: Linguistic
Excess in Japanese Media. University of Oxford Press. <br>
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You can find it here:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://campanthropology.org">https://campanthropology.org</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Ilana<br>
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The press blurb:<br>
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!important; float: none;">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.</span></font>
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