Selected aspects of pornographic fanfiction as a form of literary communication
Tereza Šmídová
Katedra českého jazyka a literatury, Univerzita Hradec Královéhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6412-0824
Marcin Filipowicz
Katedra českého jazyka a literatury, Univerzita Hradec Královéhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-1658-8422
Résumé
Fanfiction – fan literature based on a popular work – is a big, largely inconsistent group of the Internet-based creative activity. A large part of this production is devoted to relationships in various forms. In addition to romantic entanglements, the authors’ attention is more or less devoted to erotic topics balancing on the edge of pornography or even openly pornographic. The contribution will be based on the Czechoslovak fanfiction written inside the fandom of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. It aims to introduce various forms of erotic and pornographic fan production, especially categories that deviate in any way from normality. Attention will also be paid to the so-called slash (gay story) that belongs to the most popular and most widespread in the fandom. It is also one of the most discourteous and undesirable, which is due, among other things, to the fact that it combines characters that are heterosexual in the original work. Another addressed topic is the communication between authors and readers. This communication is an inseparable part of fanfiction and fan community in general. The aim is not only to characterize the ways of this communication, but rather to describe its specifics within pornographic fanfiction. It focuses on the so-called ratings and warnings, but not forgetting readers’ comments, discussions with them, or attempts at censorship (from readers and webmasters), including self-censorship.
