We are pleased to announce that the proceedings of the FanLIS Symposium are now available online. This year’s symposium, held in May, marked its fifth anniversary and therefore featured a broad range of topics intended to reflect the diversity of research conducted in recent years. Further information on the individual presentations can be found in the blog post covering the event.
The full proceedings, including individual contributions, are now accessible. Among them is a paper by our project member Saskia Dreßler, titled How Subversive is Shipping Really? An Analysis of Heteronormative Elements in Same-Sex Relationships Focused on German-Language Anime and Manga Fan Fiction.
In this paper, Dreßler examines fan fiction in the anime and manga domain for heteronormative structures and applies Floegel’s (2020) concept of “world-queering” to selected texts. The contribution is based on Dreßler’s master’s thesis, which was written in connection with the JVMG project.