Spacey Ashton (ed.) The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction: Essays on Power, Consent and the Body

McFarland & Company, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1476671214; ISBN13: 9781476671215.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 and reiterated by the erotic imagination, and how the voices of marginalized groups are both raised and ignored within slash fiction and fan communities.Slashing the invisible: bodily Autonomy in Asexual Fan Fiction
Icons of Self-Destruction: The portrayal of Aggression and Abusive behaviors in band Slash Fiction
(Un)Sanctioned bodies: The State-Sexuality-Disability nexus in Captain America Slash Fan Fiction
Not So Star-Spangled: examining race, privilege and problems in Mcu’s Captain America Fandom
When the omega empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of the Alpha/beta/omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom
pregnancy as bondage: impregnating the cisgender Man in Works of Sherlock and Merlin Slash Fiction
Erotic imaginaries of power in Fan Fiction Tropes
A bad bromance: betrayal, violence and Dark Delight in Subverting the romance narrative
Dubious consent: The revival of ravishment
“Happy consensual gangbangs”: Deconstructions of Sports cultures and hegemonic Masculinity in Football RPF