Abstract
Nick ve Charlie adında iki gencin arkadaşlıktan aşka uzanan hikâyesini konu edinen Heartstopper (Kalp Çarpıntısı) adlı çizgi romanın yazarı Alice Oseman'ın "Tapas" adlı online çizgi roman platformunda yaptığı yorumlar Boys Love (BL) hayranları arasında tartışma yaratmıştı. Söz konusu yorumunda Oseman, genelde Doğu Asya ile bağdaştırılan BL türünü karakterleri seksüelize ve fetişize etmekle itham ederek aslında Batı'da, özellikle İngilizce konuşan toplumlarda, Doğu Asya kökenli bu türe karşı yaygın olarak beslenen bakış açısını somut bir şekilde göz önüne sermiş oldu. Bu araştırma notu, Oseman'ın bu yorumundan yola çıkarak Doğu Asyalı ve Batılı yazarların "erkekler arasındaki aşk"ı konu alan eserleri ele alış tarzları ve İngilizce konuşan Batı toplumları arasında Boys Love eserlerine yönelik genel yargının ardındaki sebepleri inceleyip tartışmıştır.
References
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Abstract
Alice Oseman, the author of an LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel that focuses on the lives and romance of two boys, has made a comment that caused some controversy on the internet. This comment by Oseman illustrates a somewhat common view held by Western society toward East Asian Boys Love (BL) genre. That is: BL novels and webcomics being highly sexual, fetish works with little literary value. This research note tries to analyze what could be the reason behind this commonly held view by the West, illustrated by Oseman’s comment through analyzing BL genre, Oseman’s work Heartstopper, the differences and tendencies within the works from East Asia, China specifically, and the West.
References
- Feng, Jin. “ ‘Addicted to Beauty’: Consuming and Producing Web-Based Chinese ‘Danmei’ Fiction at Jinjiang,” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21, no. 2 (2009): 1-41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41491008.
- Ki, Namaste. “The Politics of Inside/Out: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism, and a Sociological Approach to Sexuality.” Sociological Theory 12, no. 2 (1994): 220-231. https://doi.org/10.2307/201866.
- Lin, Xi. “Breaking the Structural Silence: The Sociological Function of Danmei Novels in Contemporary China,” In Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia, ed. James Welker (USA: University of Hawai’i Press, 2022), 31-41.
- Oseman, Alice. “Yup, no explicit sex in this comic,” Tapas, December 16, 2017, https://tapas.io/episode/916722
- Wang, Aiqing. “Censorship and Circumvention in China: How Danmei Writers ‘Drive a Car’ on Jinjiang,” İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi International Journal of Media Culture and Literature 6, no. 2 (2015): 137-168. https://doi.org/10.17932/iau.ijmcl.2015.014/ijmcl_v06i2003.
- Welker, James. “Introduction: Boys Love (BL) Media and Its Asian Transfigurations.” In Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia, ed. James Welker (USA: University of Hawai’i Press, 2022), 1-16.
- Zornosa, Laura. “ How Heartstopper Helped Young Fans Around the World Come to Terms With Their Sexuality,” TIME, August 4, 2023, https://time.com/6301556/heartstopper-netflix-season-2-fans/
Details
| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Sociology (Other) |
| Journal Section | Research Note |
| Authors | |
| Early Pub Date | May 23, 2024 |
| Publication Date | May 30, 2024 |
| Submission Date | January 29, 2024 |
| Acceptance Date | February 12, 2024 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2024 Volume: 16 Issue: 1 |
