Filozofija i drustvo 2013 Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages: 196-211
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1303196D
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Who is (still) afraid of queer: Homosexual and transgender strategies of star trek
Drezgić Rada (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd + Fakultet muzičke umetnosti, Beograd)
Krstić Predrag (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)
This text gives a critical account of various, often conflicting
interpretations of slash fiction - stories based on characters from popular
TV show, The Star Trek, written (and read) by fans. What makes slash fiction,
a subgenre of fan fiction, specific is a homoeroticization of characters that
in the original narratives are either explicitly or implicitly heterosexual.
Whether such “homoerotic pairing” has any foundation in the original Star
Trek narrative, remains an open question. Answers to this question vary
greatly. An affirmative answer, however, begs a further question: whether
these narratives are “homosexual representations” in a strict gay/lesbian
sense? The authors propose that slash represents a non-hegemonic narrative
which transgresses borders (of the medium, genre, gender, sexuality etc.) set
up in the original narrative - queering, reexamining thus both sex and
gender.
Keywords: slashfiction, Star Trek, homosexuality, transgender, queering
Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 43007 i br. 41004