{"id":3539,"date":"2022-11-07T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3539"},"modified":"2022-11-07T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:39:56","slug":"conference-japanese-liberative-erotics-in-manga-depictions-of-tibetan-monks-stephen-christopher-mercredi-9-novembre-2022-de-15h-a-16h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3539","title":{"rendered":"[Conf\u00e9rence] \u00ab\u00a0Japanese Liberative Erotics in Manga Depictions of Tibetan Monks\u00a0\u00bb Stephen Christopher (mercredi 9 novembre 2022 de 15h \u00e0 16h)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stephen Christopher (University of Copenhagen) donnera une conf\u00e9rence intitul\u00e9e : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">\u00ab\u00a0Japanese Liberative Erotics in Manga Depictions <br>of Tibetan Monks\u00a0\u00bb<br>Mercredi 9 novembre 2022, de 15h \u00e0 16h<br>Maison de l&rsquo;Asie, 22 avenue du Pr\u00e9sident Wilson, Paris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Men have historically dominated the artistic production of cultural exotifications in Japan. This article flips the script by analyzing how two prominent female Japanese manga artists\u2014Kuranishi and Shinsan Nameko\u2014illustrate Tibetan men, specifically Tibetan Buddhist monks, as embodiments of erotic potentiality. Through textual analysis and fieldwork conducted from 2019-21, we show how their manga depictions of Tibetan men and monks tend towards eroticization and sexual innuendo. This discursive and aesthetic trend in manga parallels ethnographic data on how Japanese women\u2014facing unprecedented social precarity, seeking spiritual healing and self-transformation, and desiring alternate masculinities\u2014look elsewhere, outside of Japan and the perceived inadequacies of gendered Japanese society. We explore how liberative erotics, especially homoeroticism and love of and between boys, fuses with Buddhist and alternative spiritualities in yaoi and sh\u014dnen-ai genres and gestures towards a changing landscape of female desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stephen Christopher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen. In 2019, he was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Kyoto University. He is currently writing a book about Japanese support of Tibetans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.efeo.fr\/index.php\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.efeo.fr\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lien vers l&rsquo;\u00c9cole Fran\u00e7aise d&rsquo;Extr\u00eame-Orient, Paris.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Christopher (University of Copenhagen) donnera une conf\u00e9rence intitul\u00e9e : \u00ab\u00a0Japanese Liberative Erotics in Manga Depictions of Tibetan Monks\u00a0\u00bbMercredi 9 novembre 2022, de 15h \u00e0 16hMaison de l&rsquo;Asie, 22 avenue du Pr\u00e9sident Wilson, Paris Abstract Men have historically dominated the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3539\" class=\"more-link\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[336,337,302,338],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","category-conference","tag-efeo","tag-manga","tag-sfej","tag-stephen-christopher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}