Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in JapanBoys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the beautiful boy has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, Boys Love (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga,

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documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation

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