M/M Bibliography

Slash Scholarly | Slash Popular | Boys’ Love/Nanshoku

Slash Scholarly Bibliography

This lists scholarly articles and other resources about slash.

• Allington, Daniel (2007) “How Come Most People Don’t See It?”: Slashing the Lord of the Rings Social Semiotics, Volume 17, Issue 1 March 2007 , pages 43 – 62 doi: 10.1080/10350330601124650

• Aul. B. & Frank, B. (Autumn, 2002).Prisoners of dogma and prejudice: Why there are no G/L/B/T characters in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 86.

• Bacon-Smith, C. (1991). Enterprising women: Television fandom and the creation of popular myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Battis, J. (Winter, 2006). The Kryptonite closet: Silence and queer secrecy in Smallville. Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 48.

• Boyd, Kelly Simca. “One index finger on the mouse scroll bar and the other on my clit”: Slash writers’ views on pornography, censorship, feminism and risk. (Doctoral Dissertation, Simon Fraser University [Canada]), Master’s Abstracts International, 40, 2.

• Bury, R. (2005). Cyberspaces of their own: Female fandoms online. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

• Busse, Kristina. 2005. “‘Digital get down’: Postmodern Boy Band Slash and the Queer Female Space.” In Eroticism in American Culture, ed. Cheryl Malcolm and Jopi Nyman, 103–25. Gdansk: Gdansk Univ. Press.

• Chander, Anupam and Sunder, Madhavi “Everyone’s a Superhero: A Cultural Theory of ‘Mary Sue’ Fan Fiction as Fair Use” UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 110

• Cicioni, Mirna. (1998). Male Pair Bonds and Female Desire in Fan Slash Writing. In C. Harris and A. Alexander (Eds.). Theorizing Fandom: Fans, subculture and identity (pp. 153-177). Cresskil NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.

• Decarnin, Camilla (2006). Slash Fiction. In Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge, pp. 1233-1235.

• Dhaenens, Frederik; Van Bauwel, Sofie; Biltereyst, Daniel (2008) Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 32, No. 4, 335-347

• Doty, A. (1993). Making things perfectly queer: Interpreting mass culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Falzone, P.J. (2005) “The Final Frontier Is Queer: Aberrancy, Archetype and Audience Generated Folklore in K/S Slashfiction.” Western Folklore 64 3/4 pp. 243-261.

• Fisher, K. (2002). Nookie with a Wookie: The culture of slash-lit. In Jessica Berens and Kerri Sharp (Eds.), Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada sucks! and other demented descants (pp. 173-180). London: Serpent’s Tail.

• Green, Shoshanna, Jenkins, Cynthia, and Jenkins, Henry. (1998). The Normal Female Interest in Men Bonking: Selections from The Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows. In Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander, (Eds.), Theorizing Fandom: Fans, subculture, and identity (pp. 9-38). Cresskil NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.

• Hellekson, Karen and Kristina Busse. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

• Herzing, M. (1991) The Internet world of fan fiction. (Master’s Thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University).
• Hunting, Kyra. (2012). Queer as Folk and the trouble with slash. Transformative Works and Cultures, 11.

• Jenkins, H. (1992). Textual poachers: Television fans and partipatory culture. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall.

• Jung. S. (2004). Queering popular culture: Female spectators and the appeal of writing slash fan fiction. Gender Forum: Gender Queeries, 8.

• Katyal, Sonia. (2006). Performance, Property, and the Slashing of Gender in Fan Fiction. Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law, 14, p. 463.

• Keft-Kennedy, Virginia (2008) Fantasising Masculinity in Buffyverse Slash Fiction: Sexuality, Violence, and the Vampire NJES Volume 7, No. 1

• Kem, J. F. (2005). Cataloging the Whedonverse: Potential roles for librarians in online fanfiction.(Master’s Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

• Katyal, Sonia K. (2006). Performance, Property, and the Slashing of Gender in Fan Fiction. American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, 14(3), 461-581.

• Kustritz, A. (2003). Slashing the romance narrative. The Journal of American Culture, 26(3), p. 371.

• Lee, Kylie. (Spring 2003). Confronting Enterprise Slash Fan Fiction. ‘Extrapolation. 44(1) 69-82.

• Lefanu, S. (1988). In the chinks of the world machine: Feminism and science fiction. London: The Women’s Press.

• MacDonald, Marianne. (Jan/Feb 2006). Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenom. Gay & Lesbian Review, 13(1) 28-30.

• Pugh, S. (2006). The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context Brigend: Seren Books.

• Rambukkana, Nathan (2007) “Is Slash an Alternative Medium? – “Queer” Heterotopias and the Role of Autonomous Media Spaces in Radical World Building*” Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, Vol 1, No 1

• Sabucco, Veruska. (2000). Shonen Ai: Il nuovo immaginario erotico femminile tra Oriente e Occidente. Roma: Castelvecchi.

• Salmon, Catherine, and Symons, Don. (2004). Slash fiction and human mating psychology. The Journal of Sex Research, 41:1, pp. 94-100.

• Salmon, C. & Symons. D. (2003). Warrior lovers: Erotic fiction, evolution and female sexuality. Yale: Yale University Press.

• Saxey, Esther. 2001. “Staking a Claim: The Series and its Slash Fan-Fiction.” In Reading the Vampire Slayer: The unofficial critical companion to “Buffy” and “Angel,” ed. Roz Kaveny, 187–210. New York: Tauris Park.

• Scodari, Christine. (2003). Resistance Re-Examined: Gender, Fan Practices, and Science Fiction Television. Popular Communication, 1(2), pp. 111-130.

• Selley, April. (1987). “‘I have been, and ever shall be, your friend’: Star Trek, The Deerslayer, and the American Romance.” Journal of Popular Culture 20:89–104.

• Shave, Rachel. (2004). Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 6.

• Smol, Anna. (Winter 2004). “”Oh. . . oh. . . Frodo!”: Readings of Male Intimacy in The Lord of the Rings.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 50(4), pp. 949-979

• Somogyi, Victoria. (September 2002). Complexity of Desire: Janeway/Chakotay Fan Fiction. The Journal of American Culture, 25(3-4), pp. 399.404.

• Stein, Atara. (1998). “Minding One’s P’s and Q’s – Homoeroticism in Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Genders vol. 27

• Tosenberger, Catherine (2008) “Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction” Children’s Literature 36 pp.185-207

• Woledge, Elizabeth (August 2005) “Decoding Desire: From Kirk and Spock to K/S¹” Social Semiotics, Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 235 – 250 doi: 10.1080/10350330500154857

• Woledge, Elizabeth. (2005). “From Slash to the Minstream: Female writers and Gender Blending Men.” Extrapolation 46:50–65.

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Slash Popular Bibliography

This lists popular resources about slash; newspaper and magazine articles, blogs, and so forth of potential interest to researchers.

• Henry Jenkins’ Blog: Confessions of an Aca/Fan.

• Bronski, M. (July 3, 2003). There’s something about Harry. Boston Phoenix.

• Chaudhry, L. (Sept. 5, 2000). Hey Spock, lookin’ good. Wired News.

• Cicioni, M. (Sept. 1999) Perverse universes: Slash fan fiction. Diverse Universe, 1.

• Dery, M. (1996) Slashing the Borg: Resistance is Futile.

• Fanlore.org

• It’s a fan’s world: Rewriting gender with slash fan fiction. (Spring 2003). Bitch: Feminist Resonse to Pop Culture.

• Kahn, J. (April 6, 2006). The secret sisterhood of slash: Women at USC read between the story lines and rewrite their favorite characters with a homoerotic twist. Daily Trojan.

• Kahney, L. (June 13, 2002). Bill/Steve’s Sexcellent Adventure. Wired News.

• MacDonald, M. (Jan/Feb 2006). Harry Potter and the Fan Fiction Phenom. Gay and Lesbian Review, 13(1), pp. 28-30.

• Thrupkaew, N. (April 2003?). Fan/tastic voyage: A journey into the wide wild world of slash fiction! Bitch Magazine.

• Tolesco, A. The fiction of arousal: Harry Potter, slash fiction, and female bisexual arousal patterns. Good Vibrations.

• Veinglory, E. (July 23, 2004). Slash Friction: Is appropriation ever appropriate? GayWired.

• Wikipedia’s Article on Slash Fiction

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Boys’ Love/Nanshoku Bibliography

This lists research about nanshoku and boys’ love topics that don’t fit clearly into yaoi / shōnen-ai or slash categories.

• Angles, Jeffrey M. (2004) “Writing the love of boys: Representations of male-male desire in the literature of Murayama Kaita and Edogawa Ranpo (Japan).” (Dissertation, The Ohio State University). Dissertation Abstracts International 65, 01A.

• Angles, Jeffrey M. (2011) Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Berry, C. (2007). The Chinese Side of the Mountain. Film Quarterly, 60(3), pp. 32-37.

• Childs, Margaret H. (1980). “Chigo Monogatari: Love Stories or Buddhist Sermons?” Monumenta Nipponica 35(2):127-151.

• Childs, Margaret H. (trans. 1996). “The Story of Kannon’s Manifestation As a Youth” (Chigo Kannon engi). In Stephen D. Miller (Ed.), Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, pp. 31-35.

• Childs, Margaret H. (trans. 1996). “The Tale of Genmu” (Genmu monogatari). In Stephen D. Miller (Ed.), Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, pp. 36-54.

• Furukawa, Makoto. (Angus Lockyer, trans. 1994). “The Changing Nature of Sexuality: The Three Codes Framing Homosexuality in Modern Japan.” U.S. – Japan Women’s Journal, English Supplement 7(December):98-127.

• Gerstle, C. Andrew. (2001). “Love Suicides on the Eve of the Kōshin Festival” (Shinjū yoigō shin; 1722) In Gerstle (trans.), Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 278-324.

• Guth, Christine M. E. (1987). “The Divine Boy in Japanese Art.” Monumenta Nipponica 42(1):1-23.

• Jackson, Earl, Jr. (December 1989). “Kabuki Narratives of Male Homoerotic Desire in Saikaku and Mishima.” Theatre Journal 41(4):459-477.

• Jñanavira, Dharmachari. (No date). “Homosexuality in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition.”Western Buddhist Review Volume 3.

• Hayakawa Monta. (1998). 浮世絵春画と男色. [Ukiyō-e shunga to nanshoku; Spring Pictures and Nanshoku] Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha.

• Kashō Takabatake. (2001). 高畠華宵 美少年図鑑 [Takabatake kashō bishōnen zukan; Illustrated Compendium of Beautiful Boys] Tokyo: Heibonsha.

• Leupp, Gary. (1997). Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. University of California Press.

• Maës, Hubert. (1970). Hiraga Gennai et son temps. [Hiraga Gennai and His Times] Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient.

• Maës, Hubert. (trans. 1979). Histoire galante de Shidōken. [Gallant Story of Shidōken; 1763] Paris: L’Asiathèque.

• McHarry, Mark. (2011). Review of Azuma Hiroki’s Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Issue 25.

• Pflugfelder, Gregory M. (1999). Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

• Reichert, Jim. (2006). In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (1985). “The Great Mirror of Male Love” by Ihara Saikaku (Volumes I and II). (Dissertation, Harvard University). Dissertation Abstracts International, 46 08A.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (1989). “Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Description of the ‘Youth’.” In Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, eds., Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York: New American Library.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (trans. 1990). The Great Mirror of Male Love (Nanshoku ōkagami). Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (Spring 1993). “The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love. Kitamura Kigin’s Iwatsutsuji.” Monumenta Nipponica 48(1):1-31.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (1996). Introduction. In Stephen D. Miller (Ed.), Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, pp. 11-20.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (1998). “Theorizing Sex/Gender in Early Modern Japan: Kitamura Kigin’s Maidenflowers and Wild Azaleas.” Japanese Studies 18(3):247-263.

• Schalow, Paul Gordon. (2000). “Five Portraits of Male Friendship in the Ise monogatari.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60(2):445-488.

• Screech, Timon. (1999). Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

• Shively, Donald. (1955). “Bakufu Versus Kabuki”. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 18: 326-356

• Suganuma, Katsuhiko. (2012). Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

• Sueyoshi, Amy. (2012). Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

• Tinios, Ellis. (2005). “The Representation of Male-male Sex in Japanese Books”. In Amy Reigle Newland (Ed.), Japanese Erotic Fantasies: Sexual Imagery of the Edo Period. Amsterdam: Hotei, pp. 31-33. [Published with the exhibition "Desire of Spring: Erotic Fantasies in Edo Japan", 22 January - 17 April 2005, Kunsthal, Rotterdam.]

• Watanabe Hajime. (1935). “On the Scroll-painting representing the Story of the Chigo-Kawannon in the Ikedo Collection”. National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. 美術研究 [Bijutsu Kenkyu; Journal of Art Studies]. Number 39.

• Watanabe, Tsuneo, and Jun’ichi Iwata. (D.R. Roberts, trans. 1989). The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality. London: GMP Publishers. (Originally published as La Voie des éphèbes. Paris: Ed. Trismegiste, 1986.)