Public Lecture – 15 April 2021
Fanfiction and Webnovels
Hello all!
Thanks for attending my first lecture organised by Creative Communities. As per your requests, please see on this page the materials and resources from the webinar, such as the Powerpoint, Fiction Pack, and Lecture Playback!
A Discord server has also been created for anyone who wishes to connect and talk more about webcomics and creative writing!
I agree that we didn’t have ample time to participate in workshop activities or recommend/talk more about isekai webcomics and webnovels, so it is my hope that the Discord community will be a good opportunity for us to get to know each other.
Please see below the materials available. And see you on Discord! discord.gg/nwf8AbfZJh.
All the best,
Boo Sujiwaro
Lecture Playback
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.
In this lecture, we look at:
Text-based fanfiction that predominates English-speaking fan cultures and Asian fan cultures (read: k-pop and anime)
Doujinshi—visual-based fanfiction—culture in Japan
South Korean inso culture that has infiltrated the mainstream, leading to TV adaptations (read: K-Drama) of many self-produced online fiction and web novels
The growing popularity of the isekai genre in (East Asian) online fiction cultures!
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