Hey, thanks for commenting! *goes over to check out comm* I'm not as immersed in the culture as I could be, but not to fear, I'm definitely not completely ignorant ;) I've been reading boy's love manga for about a decade and did a master's thesis on them over three years ago. Of course there's such a huge mass of information now that wasn't available to me back then, and while I'm familiar with yaoi in commercial manga, I really don't know much about the peculiarities of yaoi in dojinshi yet. So while my knowledge of yaoi mechanics and Japanese fandom certainly isn't overly in-depth (not always clear on terminology, for instance, thanks for the link!), I'm familiar with the basics of seme and uke behaviour. Like the non-con/dub-con issue. I'm not being very clear on that in the post -it's part of an unpublished paper that does mention the topic. Sorry about the misunderstanding, I'll edit the post.
The main purpose of the project is to document the contents of dojinshi, something that hasn't been done in (non-Japanese) academia as far as I'm aware. A secondary goal is to raise questions/offer a range of possible explanations about the narrative differences observed between HP fanfic and dojinshi, in a very very open-ended fashion. Like this. Not trying for a 'How the Japanese Mind Works' here. *shivers*
That lack of research on dojinshi is why I'm starting out from a comparison with fanfic. I really know very little about dj (as opposed to commercial manga), and comparing it with something that has been researched far more intensively may help me stay within a sensible theoretical framework and offer me interesting/fun clues about things in dojinshi that warrant more in-depth research. If a question is too fic-centric and won't lead to relevant/interesting speculation about dojinshi, I hope that'll become obvious as I gather and analyze more data and as lovely knowledgeable people like you help me figure it out. Over time, I'll get better at spotting what's relevant and what may not be. It's a long-time project and I'm optimistic ;) Thanks for pointing out oddities, I really appreciate it.
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Hey, thanks for commenting! *goes over to check out comm* I'm not as immersed in the culture as I could be, but not to fear, I'm definitely not completely ignorant ;) I've been reading boy's love manga for about a decade and did a master's thesis on them over three years ago. Of course there's such a huge mass of information now that wasn't available to me back then, and while I'm familiar with yaoi in commercial manga, I really don't know much about the peculiarities of yaoi in dojinshi yet. So while my knowledge of yaoi mechanics and Japanese fandom certainly isn't overly in-depth (not always clear on terminology, for instance, thanks for the link!), I'm familiar with the basics of seme and uke behaviour. Like the non-con/dub-con issue. I'm not being very clear on that in the post -it's part of an unpublished paper that does mention the topic. Sorry about the misunderstanding, I'll edit the post.
The main purpose of the project is to document the contents of dojinshi, something that hasn't been done in (non-Japanese) academia as far as I'm aware. A secondary goal is to raise questions/offer a range of possible explanations about the narrative differences observed between HP fanfic and dojinshi, in a very very open-ended fashion. Like this. Not trying for a 'How the Japanese Mind Works' here. *shivers*
That lack of research on dojinshi is why I'm starting out from a comparison with fanfic. I really know very little about dj (as opposed to commercial manga), and comparing it with something that has been researched far more intensively may help me stay within a sensible theoretical framework and offer me interesting/fun clues about things in dojinshi that warrant more in-depth research. If a question is too fic-centric and won't lead to relevant/interesting speculation about dojinshi, I hope that'll become obvious as I gather and analyze more data and as lovely knowledgeable people like you help me figure it out. Over time, I'll get better at spotting what's relevant and what may not be. It's a long-time project and I'm optimistic ;) Thanks for pointing out oddities, I really appreciate it.