Students explore erotica in fan fiction DeCal at UC Berkeley
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| Title: | Students explore erotica in fan fiction DeCal at UC Berkeley |
| Commentator: | Robert Patrick Van Tooke |
| Date(s): | February 13, 2015 |
| Venue: | online |
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| External Links: | Students explore erotica in fan fiction DeCal at UC Berkeley, Archived version |
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Students explore erotica in fan fiction DeCal at UC Berkeley was published in "The Daily Californian," a student newspaper.
This article is closely related to TheoryofFicGate.
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The literary community is dedicated to all sorts of reading: novels, novellas, autobiographies about sports, history, fiction — and more recently, the subculture of eroticism and sex.As a subset of this community, students on campus have created a space to discuss fan fiction, a literary genre generated by fans of fictional stories. These fans dedicate their time to recreate plots that involve characters from the original piece — a form of “fan labor” that has grown since the beginning of the Internet.
At a weekly DeCal class called “The Theory of Fanfiction,” students share and explore the forms and themes of fan fiction. Students meet each Monday to discuss the genre’s role in the literary world as well as in society as a whole. Through the class, started this semester by UC Berkeley senior [I L] and junior [K H], students explore the history of fandom, the role of social media in developing the genre and fan fiction’s importance in providing a vehicle for alternative sexuality and kink expression.