Abstract
This chapter examines a postwar linguistic practice called o-ne-kotoba, which is utilized by gay men, M-F transgendered people, and M-F transsexual individuals. The word ëan be literally translated as the “f older sister or woman,” more informal and contextual sense as “speech.”ëfic ? + older sister or woman) in current usage has been casually accepted to refer to effeminate homosexual men and/or transgendered individuals.
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Minami Takao, “Dansbō dungi-otoko onnn no kim&skt” (Story of male prostitutes), Darnm 1, no. 12 (1948): 19–23.
Owada Seiji, “Eroguro sesō: Tunbō nijūsō dunsbō o badaka ni suru” (Erotic and grotesque: Expose the dansbō), Sbinsōjitsuwa 1, no. 2, June (1949): 74–81.
Daniel Long, “Formation Processes of Some Japanese Gay Argot Terms,” American Speech 71, no. 2 (1996): 220.
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (New York and London: Routledge, 1990), 33.
Janet Shibamoto, Japanese Wotnen’s Speech (Orlando: Academic Press, 1985), 159.
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Abe, H. (2010). Performing the Performative in the Theater of the Queer. In: Queer Japanese. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230106161_5
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