Geek Week: A Pop Culture, Gaming, Young Adult and Children's Literature, and Fanfiction Event at UFRJ with A Significant Academic Impact in Brazil

Geek Week: A Pop Culture, Gaming, Young Adult and Children's Literature, and Fanfiction Event at UFRJ with A Significant Academic Impact in Brazil

This piece provides a summary of the academic event Geek Week in Brazil, which was a collaboration between the research groups NEPF² (​Fans and Fanfic Studies and Research Group), NuPNE (Electronic Narrative Research Center), and NUPLIJ (Center for Research in Children's and Youth Literature). The primary objective of Geek Week was to establish a safe and engaging space for intellectual discussions on topics related to pop culture, gaming, young adult and children's literature, and fanfiction. The event encouraged not only the academic research groups to share their perspectives but also provided an open forum for attendees to actively engage in discourse about widely consumed cultural phenomena.

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Returning to Tradition: Emotional Morality in Fan Fiction of 'A Dream of Red Mansions'

Returning to Tradition: Emotional Morality in Fan Fiction of 'A Dream of Red Mansions'

Cao Xueqin's masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions is both a model of ancient literature and the subversion of many of the conventions of its literary genre. Today, it is also a popular canon for fan fiction writers on the internet. But where the original work is renowned for its subversive nature, contemporary fan fiction for it most often returns to classic social values.

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