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Examining Sexual Normativity in Welcome to Night Vale Slash Fiction

Hart, Danielle
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461437988

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2016, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Drawing from Amy J. Devitt’s ideas of classifying genres through the lens of social purpose, I examine several slash stories about the Welcome to Night Vale podcast to better elucidate some of slash’s social purposes and its interactions with heteronormativity and homonormativity (as explained by Lisa Duggan). Welcome to Night Vale features canonically gay characters, something which has been almost unheard of in slash fiction until recently. My analysis of Night Vale fics about polyamorous same gender relationships and male pregnancy demonstrates that even these seemingly transgressive stories do not always fully accept nor reject homonormative values. Just as with the genre of slash fiction itself, individual instances of slash can blur boundaries and simultaneously promote transgression and conformity.
Stephanie Moody, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Tammy Clewell, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kevin Floyd, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
78 p.
Gender; Gender Studies; Literature; Mass Media; Modern Literature
fanfiction; fan fiction; fandom; transformative works; Welcome to Night Vale; slash fiction; slash; genre theory; queer theory; gender and sexuality

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  • Hart, D. (2016). Examining Sexual Normativity in Welcome to Night Vale Slash Fiction [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461437988

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hart, Danielle. Examining Sexual Normativity in Welcome to Night Vale Slash Fiction. 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461437988.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hart, Danielle. "Examining Sexual Normativity in Welcome to Night Vale Slash Fiction." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461437988

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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