Overview

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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Author:   Sara K. Howe ,  Susan E. Cook ,  Bobby Derie ,  Antonnet Johnson
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781498590853

ISBN 10:   1498590853
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Entering the Fringe Sara K. Howe and Susan E. Cook 1. Playing Rough: Consent, Captivity, and Rape Role Play in Taboo Erotic Romances Sara K. Howe 2. Violating the Vampire: Twihard Fan Fiction as Rape Fantasy Jane M. Kubiesa 3. A Kink of One’s Own: Subversion, Disorientation, and the Feminine Voice in Kathy Acker’s Blood and Guts in High School Fe Lorraine Reyes 4. Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34 Brian Watson and Bobby Derie 5. It’s a (Bound and Gagged) Living: Sweet Gwendoline and the “Danger Girl” Archetype Sean Shannon 6. Kinking the Canon: Pornography and Prose in Fingersmith and The Handmaiden Susan E. Cook 7. “To Test the Limits and Break Through”: How Femslash Rejects Straight-Coding of Queer Experiences in Disney’s Frozen Whitney S. May 8. Breaking the Scales: Refusal, Excess, and the Fat Male Body in Supernatural and Harry Potter Fan Fiction Jonathan A. Rose 9. “Roll for Seduction”: Sex as Forbidden Play in Critical Role and The Adventure Zone Fan Fiction Josh Zimmerman and Antonnet Johnson About the Editors About the Contributors Index

Reviews

The chapters in this collection articulate some exceptionally important and profound ideas. The way the authors embrace their subjects as kinked often leads to profound moments of recognition and realization, particularly when they focus on the most troubling sexually explicit material (concerning subjects like rape, incest, and abortion). The wide scope of the volume overall is to be applauded, and demonstrates that kink studies must be open and inclusive, not merely restricted to tiresome analysis of heteronormative-tinged BDSM. -- Jason D. Scott, Arizona State University

Author Information

Susan E. Cook is associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University. Sara K. Howe is associate professor of English and creative writing coordinator at Southern New Hampshire University.

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