TY - BOOK ID - 138535538 TI - Queerqueen : Linguistic excess in Japanese media PY - 2020 SN - 9780190869601 0190869607 9780190869618 0190869615 0190869623 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Homosexuality on television KW - Homosexuality and television KW - Television programs KW - Gender identity on television KW - Japanese language KW - Gay men KW - Lesbians KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Social aspects KW - Sex differences KW - Language UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138535538 AB - "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."-- ER -