Unjapanologist

From the department of research-related things that happened while I was too busy to remember I have a journal... The latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures contains a book review by me of Boys' love manga: essays on the sexual ambiguity and cross-cultural fandom of the genre (ed. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliassotti). Like most academic books, this one contained a few weaker chapters, but I found it very informative in general. It puts a nice amount of emphasis on fan-related topics, which is why I'd heartily recommend it to English-language fan studies researchers who want to find out more about yaoi/boys' love -although nothing beats actually reading some, of course.

(Random e-book note: the Kindle edition of this book costs half as much as the print edition, $19.25, but that price still made me go "whoa" for a second. I've been conditioned to tolerate e-book prices up until $13 or so. Anything above that makes me think twice about purchasing something.)

Originally published at Academic FFF. You can comment here or there.

I'm still working through the batch of over a hundred new Snape-as-a-main-character Harry Potter dojinshi I bought in July, but once more, it seems all of them are yaoi. Now, I didn't do this on purpose. Really. I specifically went looking for het HP dojinshi with Snape in them in Toranoana and other shops that cater to a male clientele, because I know there are het HP dojinshi out there. I've seen them on the net. They weren't in the shops. Not anymore, the friendly sales clerks said. The female-oriented shops still had shelves and shelves of HP dojinshi, the vast majority of them yaoi.

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