A short history of 'hentai'

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McLelland, Mark
AsiaPacificQueer Network

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Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University

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"A Yahoo search for the Japanese loanword ‘hentai’ produces over 7 million hits ... evidence of the popularity of a genre of erotic manga and anime referred to as hentai or sometimes the abbreviation ‘H’ (pronounced etchi in Japanese) by western fans. ... [The] use of the term hentai to refer to erotic or sexual manga and anime in general is not a Japanese but an English innovation. In Japanese hentai can reference sexual material but only of an extreme, ‘abnormal’ or ‘perverse’ kind; it is not a general category... "

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McLelland, M. (2005, July). A short history of ‘hentai’. Paper presented at Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies. Bangkok, Thailand: AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Mahidol University; Australian National University

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Sexualities, genders and rights in Asia : 1st international Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2005

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Conference paper

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