Homonational tongue?
Onē-Kotoba (Queen’s Language) among Tokyo amateur gay volleyballers
This ethnographic writing animates the communal role of language through
onē-kotoba (queen’s language) among Ni-chōme volleyballers (amateur volleyball-loving gay
men in Tokyo). This gayly effeminate speech style remains firmly entrenched in Japanese media-representations of gay male
characters despite its alleged rejection by actual gay men as well as its problematic characterization as being disrespectful to
women. By adopting an ethnographic approach anchored in performance studies, I address
onē-kotoba not in media but one real, perhaps unexpected, context of use. As Ni-chōme
volleyballers swing between discretion and disclosure by fashioning language(/gender), such tactical performance of
onē-kotoba lubricates an aesthetically pro-silence erotic play in tension with Japan’s –
retrospectively and arguably – family-oriented, if not homophobic, sociocultural orientation resistant to “out-and-proud”
activism. Overall, this ethnographic research highlights the enduring difficulty of radical coalition among diverse populations,
as I spotlight Ni-chōme volleyballers by discussing what has been in Japan in relation to the Euro-American resistance-minded
queer theory.
Article outline
- Distance in translation
- Queer anthropology of Japan as method
- Vocabulary and visibility
- From within an aesthetically pro-silence play
- Voices in my closet
- Coda: Alongside erotic silence
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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