Fanfiction and the Art of Webnovels: Public Lecture

Fanfiction is a fascinating arena of cultural production with its own norms, hierarchies, and structuring practices. While the West has been slow to embrace self-produced online contents as ‘legitimate’ works of literature and art, in the East fanworks and self-produced online fiction have gained mainstream popularity; this has led publishers/corporations to establish ‘legitimate’ online platforms for web novelists and illustrators to publish and serialise their works.