"Sherlock" (Holmes) in Japanese (fan) works

Authors

  • Lori Morimoto Independent Scholar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0971

Keywords:

Appropriation, BBC Sherlock, Fan fiction, Fan studies, Japan

Abstract

I explore the history of Japanese writing centered on Sherlock Holmes as a means of interrogating the 2014 BBC Sherlock pastiche John and Sherlock Casebook 1: Jon, zenchi renmei e iku (The stark naked league), written by Japanese Sherlockian Kitahara Naohiko for mainstream publication by the publishing house Hayakawa shobō. I argue that exploration of the Japanese (fan) cultural contexts of Kitahara's book begins to reveal the limits of the Anglo-American-centered framework through which fan studies scholars explore fan/producer relationships.

Author Biography

Lori Morimoto, Independent Scholar

Lori Morimoto is an independent researcher of transcultural fan cultures and transnational film co-productions. She has published essays on transcultural fandom and Japanese female fandom of overseas stars for Transformative Works and Cultures and Participations, as well as on transnational Japanese cinema for Scope and Asian Cinema.
Color image in the style of STRAND magazine cover

Downloads

Published

2017-03-15

Issue

Vol. 23 (2017)

Section

Symposium

License

TWC Nos. 25 onward are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC by 4.0). For an explanation of the journal's reasoning, see the TWC editorial Copyright and Open Access. TWC Nos. 1 through 24 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, with TWC, not the author, retaining copyright.

Presses whose policies require written permission for reproduction should contact the TWC Editor; such permission is routinely given for no fee.