Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
English
Date of Award
5-2021
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Michael A. Cody
Committee Members
Mark Baumgartner, Chelsea R. Wessels
Abstract
Fanfiction provides the unique opportunity to explore disruptions of heteronormativity through tropes. By exploring different fanfictions in the Soulmate AU, ABO Dynamics, and Mpreg tropes, the disruptions indicate a desire to explore gender, identity, and sexuality through queered characters. Male slash fanfiction provides the chance to examine the disruption of the heteronormative through the queering of male characters and placing them into situations that may embrace the feminine or a female-gendered experience. The situating of heterosexual male characters into queered roles allows an examination of how this disrupts canonical ideas of gender, identity, and sexuality. By reviewing the male slash relationships in these tropes, the narratives may explain why the disruption of heteronormativity seems so appealing to fanfiction authors and readers. Heteronormativity restricts exploration of new dynamics and experiences that fanfiction authors and readers may crave to investigate. Disrupting that heteronormativity presents new opportunities for experiences in areas that may receive underrepresentation.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Preslar, Stephanie, "Fanfiction: A Look into the Disruptions of Gender Identity through Tropes" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3885. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3885
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
Included in
English Language and Literature Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons