Representing Kink

Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture

Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9085-3 (ISBN)

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Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).

Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines “kink” broadly, encompassing a range of “inappropriate” texts and practices and understanding it in frequent reference to nonnormative erotic fantasies and experiences. Kink is treated as both a set of practices as well as a category of texts at the nexus of subject and form. In addition to canonical texts that take up erotic and marginalized themes, the collection also studies forms that are themselves fringe and feature kink: taboo literature, self-published erotica, SM narratives, fan fiction, role-playing games, and other disavowed texts. The purpose of this study is to focus attention on the margins of an already marginalized subject, in order to highlight the extent to which nonnormative textuality and eroticism both shape and are shaped by our culture. It sheds light on a category of subjects that is at once mainstream in the form of texts such as Fifty Shades of Grey and yet nevertheless repeatedly disparaged and undertheorized. This book advocates for conversations about kinky texts that transcend dichotomous frameworks of good and bad, and normal and deviant, thinking instead in new, theoretically rigorous and flexible directions.

Susan E. Cook is associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University. Sara K. Howe is associate professor of English and creative writing coordinator at Southern New Hampshire University.

Introduction: Entering the Fringe
Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook
1. Playing Rough: Consent, Captivity, and Rape Role Play in Taboo Erotic Romances
Sara K. Howe
2. Violating the Vampire: Twihard Fan Fiction as Rape Fantasy
Jane M. Kubiesa
3. A Kink of One’s Own: Subversion, Disorientation, and the Feminine Voice in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School
Fe Lorraine Reyes
4. Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34
Brian Watson and Bobby Derie
5. It’s a (Bound and Gagged) Living: Sweet Gwendoline and the “Danger Girl” Archetype
Sean Shannon
6. Kinking the Canon: Pornography and Prose in Fingersmith and The Handmaiden
Susan E. Cook
7. “To Test the Limits and Break Through”: How Femslash Rejects Straight-Coding of Queer Experiences in Disney’s Frozen
Whitney S. May
8. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan Fiction
Jonathan A. Rose
9. “Roll for Seduction”: Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan Fiction
Josh Zimmerman and Antonnet Johnson

About the Editors
About the Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2019
Co-Autor	Bobby Derie, Antonnet Johnson, Jane M. Kubiesa
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 236 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4985-9085-3 / 1498590853
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-9085-3 / 9781498590853
Zustand	Neuware