31.1543, Books: queerqueen: Maree

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Subject: 31.1543, Books: queerqueen: Maree

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Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 21:33:59
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: queerqueen: Maree

 


Title: queerqueen 
Subtitle: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media 
Series Title: Studies in Language and Gender  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/queerqueen-9780190869601?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Claire Maree

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190869601 Pages: 232 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

>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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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