Lesbian Fetishes, Queer Archaeology, and the Fusion of Baihe and Daomu in Explore Fictitious Tombs (Tanxuling).
In this article I analyze Explore Fictitious Tombs (Tanxuling), a web novel begun by JunSola in 2010 that fuses baihe (literally, "lily") and daomu ("tomb robbing") to exemplify genre mixing, an understudied phenomenon. Originally pronounced yuri in Japanese and used to designate a type of Japanese...
| Publicado en: | Chinese Literature & Thought Today Vol. 55; no. 3/4; pp. 71 - 84 |
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2024
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