Glad to hear from you! I wanted to leave a comment on some of your posts, but I haven't joined the exodus to dreamwidth yet.
You're right, what's interesting about the 70s manga we're talking about is seeing how people were working through gender and sexuality issues that really came to the social fore in the 60s, but without yet knowing how to handle them. It comes off as politically wrong-footed sometimes (the whole "child abuse" thing...), but I think the gestures they made towards queer relationships, with all their evasions and distancing and fantastic settings, are interesting as a kind of speech about sexual/gender identity that can't yet say itself. That's a position many people are still in today, so I think it has resonance.
Now I really want to read Oniisama E too! I'll check it out as soon as I get a few minutes.
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Date: 2010-10-12 03:21 pm (UTC)You're right, what's interesting about the 70s manga we're talking about is seeing how people were working through gender and sexuality issues that really came to the social fore in the 60s, but without yet knowing how to handle them. It comes off as politically wrong-footed sometimes (the whole "child abuse" thing...), but I think the gestures they made towards queer relationships, with all their evasions and distancing and fantastic settings, are interesting as a kind of speech about sexual/gender identity that can't yet say itself. That's a position many people are still in today, so I think it has resonance.
Now I really want to read Oniisama E too! I'll check it out as soon as I get a few minutes.