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25 May 2006 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Question : am I the only one to think that talking of "yaoi" as a subgenre of "slash" is horribly ethnocentrist in that it considers the Western brand of homoerotic fandom as the more global, universal genre and considers the Japanese brand as a subset of it regardless of historical developments of either genre ?
PS : I'm not saying that
penknife is ethnocentrist since she's only asking the question.
PS : I'm not saying that
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Date: 25 May 2006 05:11 pm (UTC)Just because they are both genres of male/male romance doesn't mean they have anything else in common. Though I do see some borrowing in both directions, slash looks really different to me from yaoi.
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Date: 25 May 2006 05:18 pm (UTC)It's considering slash as more universal than yaoi that shocks me. Of course yaoi will look more exotic and strangely coded to us. That doesn't mean that slash doesn't have its own weird specificities if seen from the outside.
I really like the idea of considering it all subsets of homoerotic art in general...