(Academia)Star Trek & History, Yaoi Manga
The editor of the Star Trek CFP has included race & gender as a possible topic: "Race and gender in Star Trek, discussed against the backdrop of the period when the series was first made (and how the depiction of race, gender, and sexuality developed over the various series and movies)".
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Star Trek and History
Call for Papers
*Proposals Due Oct. 1, 2010*
*Call for Papers: Star Trek and History (book collection)*
*Editor:* Nancy Reagin, Pace University
*Description:*
We are inviting proposals for essays to be included in an edited collection, “Star Trek and History,” which will be published by Wiley & Sons in 2012 as part of its Pop Culture and History series. We’re looking for essays that historicize the Star Trek television series and movies: examining individual characters or aspects of the series against a historical backdrop, analyzing how popular historical understandings inform the series, or discussing the use of historical contexts or events within Star Trek. The primary focus of the collection is on the characters and stories of the first Star Trek series (and its movies), but essays that discuss the use of history in the later Star Trek series (Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise) are also welcome.
The collection is aimed at a broader audience than is the case for many scholarly collections. We will ask authors to use language that is accessible to undergraduate readers, as well, and to write essays that are engaging to read and which push readers to think about the ways that history is used in popular culture. Essays should avoid focusing on a close reading of one single episode, but instead should examine a particular theme across a number of episodes, movies, or even across several Star Trek series, analyzing how the use of history in the series has changed since the 1960s.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• The Cold War in Star Trek
• Star Trek and the Vietnam War
• Race and gender in Star Trek, discussed against the backdrop of the period when the series was first made (and how the depiction of race, gender, and sexuality developed over the various series and movies)
• Star Trek’s depictions of earlier historical periods (e.g., the American Old West, Nazi Germany, etc.)
• Star Trek’s understanding of the history of science and technology
• How is history imagined, researched, and taught in the Star Trek universe?
• Making sure that history comes out “right”: the repeated attempts of characters to safeguard, or intervene in, the “right” timeline
• The UFP vs. the United Nations: Star Trek’s understanding of governance and legal systems
Wiley & Sons will pay contributors an honorarium of $400.
Please email a 500-word proposal, a one-page c.v., and contact information to Nancy Reagin at nreagin [AT] pace.edu by Oct. 1, 2010.
Notification of accepted proposals will be made by Oct. 15, 2010.
Chapter drafts of approximately 5,000 words will be due by June 1, 2011.
Nancy Reagin, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies
Pace University
New York, NY 10038
(212) 346-1676
Email: nreagin@pace.edu
Visit the website at http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/star_trek_history.html
Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
Edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry and Dru Pagliassotti
McFarland & Co., 2010
ISBN 978-0-7864-4195-2
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4195-2
"Boys’ love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys’ love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Antonia Levi
Part One: Boys’ Love and Global Publishing
1. Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S.
Hope Donovan
2. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys’ Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically
Paul M. Malone
3. Boys’ Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia
Yamila Abraham
Part Two: Genre and Readership
4. Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction
Dru Pagliassotti
5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off? Mark John Isola
6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash Marni Stanley
7. “She Should Just Die in a Ditch”: Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys’ Love Manga
M. M. Blair
8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction
Tan Bee Kee
Part Three: Boys’ Love and Perceptions of the Queer
9. Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys’ Love Manga Neal K. Akatsuka
10. Boys in Love in Boys’ Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation
Mark McHarry
11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response
Mark Vicars and Kim Senior
12. Gay or Gei? Reading “Realness” in Japanese Yaoi Manga Alexis Hall
13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon Alan Williams
14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality via BL
Uli Meyer
Glossary
Mark McHarry
Email: markmcharry@gmail.com
Visit the website at http:///www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4195-2
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Star Trek and History
Call for Papers
*Proposals Due Oct. 1, 2010*
*Call for Papers: Star Trek and History (book collection)*
*Editor:* Nancy Reagin, Pace University
*Description:*
We are inviting proposals for essays to be included in an edited collection, “Star Trek and History,” which will be published by Wiley & Sons in 2012 as part of its Pop Culture and History series. We’re looking for essays that historicize the Star Trek television series and movies: examining individual characters or aspects of the series against a historical backdrop, analyzing how popular historical understandings inform the series, or discussing the use of historical contexts or events within Star Trek. The primary focus of the collection is on the characters and stories of the first Star Trek series (and its movies), but essays that discuss the use of history in the later Star Trek series (Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise) are also welcome.
The collection is aimed at a broader audience than is the case for many scholarly collections. We will ask authors to use language that is accessible to undergraduate readers, as well, and to write essays that are engaging to read and which push readers to think about the ways that history is used in popular culture. Essays should avoid focusing on a close reading of one single episode, but instead should examine a particular theme across a number of episodes, movies, or even across several Star Trek series, analyzing how the use of history in the series has changed since the 1960s.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• The Cold War in Star Trek
• Star Trek and the Vietnam War
• Race and gender in Star Trek, discussed against the backdrop of the period when the series was first made (and how the depiction of race, gender, and sexuality developed over the various series and movies)
• Star Trek’s depictions of earlier historical periods (e.g., the American Old West, Nazi Germany, etc.)
• Star Trek’s understanding of the history of science and technology
• How is history imagined, researched, and taught in the Star Trek universe?
• Making sure that history comes out “right”: the repeated attempts of characters to safeguard, or intervene in, the “right” timeline
• The UFP vs. the United Nations: Star Trek’s understanding of governance and legal systems
Wiley & Sons will pay contributors an honorarium of $400.
Please email a 500-word proposal, a one-page c.v., and contact information to Nancy Reagin at nreagin [AT] pace.edu by Oct. 1, 2010.
Notification of accepted proposals will be made by Oct. 15, 2010.
Chapter drafts of approximately 5,000 words will be due by June 1, 2011.
Nancy Reagin, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies
Pace University
New York, NY 10038
(212) 346-1676
Email: nreagin@pace.edu
Visit the website at http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin/star_trek_history.html
Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
Edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry and Dru Pagliassotti
McFarland & Co., 2010
ISBN 978-0-7864-4195-2
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4195-2
"Boys’ love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. It is found in manga, anime, novels, movies, electronic games, and fan-created fiction, artwork, and video. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys’ love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Antonia Levi
Part One: Boys’ Love and Global Publishing
1. Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S.
Hope Donovan
2. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys’ Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically
Paul M. Malone
3. Boys’ Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia
Yamila Abraham
Part Two: Genre and Readership
4. Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction
Dru Pagliassotti
5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off? Mark John Isola
6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash Marni Stanley
7. “She Should Just Die in a Ditch”: Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys’ Love Manga
M. M. Blair
8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction
Tan Bee Kee
Part Three: Boys’ Love and Perceptions of the Queer
9. Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys’ Love Manga Neal K. Akatsuka
10. Boys in Love in Boys’ Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation
Mark McHarry
11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response
Mark Vicars and Kim Senior
12. Gay or Gei? Reading “Realness” in Japanese Yaoi Manga Alexis Hall
13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon Alan Williams
14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality via BL
Uli Meyer
Glossary
Mark McHarry
Email: markmcharry@gmail.com
Visit the website at http:///www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4195-2