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Representing Kink raises awareness about non-normative texts and
non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines "kink"
broadly, encompassing a range of "inappropriate" texts and
understanding it in frequent reference to non-normative 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 non-normative textuality
and eroticism both shape and are shaped by culture and context. 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.
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.
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