Representing Kink - Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2019
Editors:	Sara K. Howe • Susan E. Cook
Contributors:	Bobby Derie • Antonnet Johnson • Jane M Kubiesa • Whitney S May • Fe Lorraine Reyes • Jonathan A. Rose • Sean Shannon • Brian Watson
Dimensions:	236 x 161 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	194
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-9085-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-4985-9085-3
Barcode:	9781498590853

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