Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction
Subtitle: Essays on Power, Consent and the Body
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781476671215
Subjects: Essays
Description: Like other forms of fan fiction, slash fiction--centered on same-sex relationships between two or more characters--is a powerful cultural dialogue. Though the genre can be socially transformative, particularly as an active feminist resistance to patriarchal ideologies, it is complex and continually evolving. This collection of new essays covers topics on real, "fringe" bodies and identities; the inscription and transgression of bodily boundaries; and the exploration of power, autonomy and personal agency. Considering the darker side of the genre, these essays discuss how systems of authority are both challenged adn reiterated by the erotic imagination, and how the voices of marginalized groups are both raised and ignored within slash fiction and fan communities--back cover.