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The Narrative Lives of Harry Potter Slash Online Bodily Spectacles, Queer Re-Visions: The Narrative Lives of Harry Potter Slash Online Item Type text; Electronic Thesis Authors Hijazi, Skyler James Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 07/10/2021 00:33:59 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193294 BODILY SPECTACLES, QUEER RE-VISIONS: THE NARRATIVE LIVES OF HARRY POTTER SLASH ONLINE by Skyler James Hijazi __________________________ Copyright © Skyler James Hijazi 2007 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2007 2 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This thesis has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. SIGNED: Skyler J. Hijazi APPROVAL BY THESIS DIRECTOR This thesis has been approved on the date shown below: _____________________________________ May 29, 2007 Caryl Flinn Date Professor of Women’s Studies 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Support of many kinds was fundamental to the writing of this thesis. The most instrumental and continuous of those was the support, both financial and emotional, of my parents without which neither this thesis nor any part of my scholarship could have been sustained. I wish especially to thank my mother who has been my ally and my confidant, though it took no small effort on her part to stand by me when the path of both my academic work and my identity took unexpected and difficult turns. She was also an enthusiastic reader of early chapter drafts and a meticulous proofreader, for which I am particularly grateful. I would like to thank the University of Arizona Women’s Studies Department, especially my advisor, Caryl Flinn, and the other members of my thesis committee, Clark Pomerleau and Miranda Joseph, each of whom was instrumental in the shape which this project has taken. Through the questions and challenges they raised, both in response to my thesis drafts and in the courses that I took with them, they helped me to sharpen my arguments and fostered my engagement with the theoretical traditions that allowed this project to come to fruition. I owe a particular debt to Caryl for her generosity and patience in guiding a project that often threatened to overspill even the already-ambitious boundaries set for it. Though not a member of my thesis committee, Liz Kennedy’s mentorship and encouragement was pivotal to my growth as a scholar and I would like to express my gratitude for all that I have learned from her. I would also like to express my gratitude to Shannon Randal and Jess Weinberg, each of whom supported the writing of this thesis by sharing my enthusiasm for the texts with which I worked and by helping me to talk through what seemed, at times, like innumerable theoretical impasses. One often finds solace and sustenance in unexpected places, and this thesis could not have been written without the very quotidian requirement of a space in which to write it, a space for all-night reading sprees and in which to decompress when the frustrations of writing inevitably peaked. Thus for the bottomless cups of tea and for the ever-open well-light space, I would like to express my gratitude to the crew of a very special yellow restaurant on Ina Road, but most especially to Lorie Wallace for all the times she made me laugh and also to Harold Jagger who made possible a place in which people could come together to build networks of support as vital as any family. Finally, I would like to extend a special thank you to my friend Barry Layman for his calm and centered wisdom, for being such a patient listener, and for all the crossword puzzling which undoubtedly helped to keep me sane. 4 DEDICATION To Tiffany, who was with me at the beginning, and to all those for whom Potter slash fandom has opened new and unforeseen worlds of possibility. ~~~ This thesis was written before the release of the final book in the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The canon texts discussed herein include only the first six books of the series, and all the fanfiction texts were written pre-book seven. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ............................................................................... 7 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................ 8 CHAPTER 1 “Single white wizard seeks same”: Textual Desire, Slash, and Queer Re-Vision(s) in the Harry Potter Fandom .................................... 9 3 The Journey from Platform 9 /4(.com): An Overview of the (Online) Potterverse ....................................................................................................11 A Slash Studies Time-Turner ........................................................................ 18 The Subtext of Buttsex: Slash as Queer Reading .......................................... 28 Iterating Desire and Narrating Coherence ...................................................... 44 CHAPTER 2 On The Traumatized Bodies of Men: Memory, Alienation, and Affective Impact in Harry/Snape Slash Fic ................................................ 54 Registering Trauma Across the Diegesis ......................................................... 60 Diegetic Historical Traumas ..........................................................................61 Extradiegetic Structural Traumas ................................................................ 63 MetaDiegetic Traumas ...................................................................................72 Doorways to the Past: Re-Membering (In) the Present .................................. 75 Genealogy of Loss: The Heritage of Harry’s Forebears ................................. 92 Parable of Alienation: Harry and Snape in Canon ....................................... 102 Spectacularizations: Alienation Beyond the Page ........................................ 115 Consummations: Caressing (Through) Bodies of Trauma .......................... 129 Collisions: The Texture of Forgetting, the Feeling of Fracture ................. 140 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS - Continued CHAPTER 3 Between Harry and His Fans: Embodied (Dis)appearances On- and Off-Line ....................................................................................... 152 The Box That Never Closes: Turning on the Monitor ..................................... 154 Spheres, Squares, and Rhizomes: Metaphors of Public Space and Discourse ......................................................................................................159 Harry Potter’s Vagina, or Sex Publics in the Wizarding World’s Dark Tomorrow ...........................................................................................172 The “Real” Desires of Posthuman Bodies: Seeing Across the Screen .................................................................................................... 184 APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS ..................................... 196 REFERENCES .....................................................................................................205 7 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIGURE 1 “Another Kind of Fandom Wank” Screen Capture............................... 161 FIGURE 2 Screen Capture from “Walking the Plank”...........................................162 FIGURE 3 Equus Publicity Poster ........................................................................187 FIGURE 4 Daniel Radcliffe Equus Publicity Photo .............................................. 188 8 ABSTRACT This thesis offers readings of several slash (i.e. homoerotic) fanfiction narratives produced and shared online by members of the Harry Potter fandom. I argue that an understanding of slash fanfiction must be grounded not, as commonly suggested in the literature on slash, in binaristic and essentialized assumptions about the coherence of categories of gender and sexuality, but instead in a highly contextualized consideration of the canon text, fans’ shared desires for that text, and a collective memory which, in Potter fandom, centers on diegetic trauma. Through embodied encounters with online texts, the protracted practices of queer reading, and the (re-)telling of queer(ed) stories, the subjectivity of fans changes: slash texts and fandom interactions enable fans not just to read but also to speak differently, to potentially narrate themselves queerly in ways that challenge traditional framings of coherent and legible desire and embodiment. 9 CHAPTER 1 “Single white wizard seeks same”: Textual Desire, Slash, and Queer Re-Vision(s) in the Harry Potter Fandom “Words can only be read and understood in relation to the context in which they are articulated, and even then only partially. [...] Within this conceptualization of language, identity becomes an act of storytelling constructed through memory, naming,
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