Eroottiset kirjalliset utopiat

Slash-fanifiktion mahdolliset maailmat homoeroottisena kirjallisuutena

• Silja Kukka Oulun yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74890

Abstrakti

Erotic Textual Utopias: Possible worlds of Slash fan fiction as erotic literature

The history of fan fiction studies has long focused on fan fiction as a cultural phenomenon and as an example of resisting viewing. While many of the previous studies have concentrated on fan fiction stories as part of fandom studies, a textual analysis of the stories has been somewhat neglected. This paper sets out to explore homoerotic slash fan fiction as literature by examining one fan fiction story belonging to the fandom of a contemporary television series Supernatural. By setting the story as part of the genre of pastoral elegy, a genre long associated with homoerotic literature, this paper situates fan fiction as part of fiction of reaction that reads new meanings from old texts. The paper also considers slash as erotic textual utopias and as female gay pornography. As such, slash expands the way main stream pornography reconstructs men and male sexuality, and may shed new light to how we understand and study pornography.