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Representing Kink : Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Representing Kink : Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture Paperback / softback

Edited by Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook

Paperback / softback

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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.

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