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

Author(s) -

Lori Morimoto

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

transformative works and cultures

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1941-2258

DOI - 10.3983/twc.2017.0971

Subject(s) - mainstream , league , art history , casebook , performance art , art , law , political science , physics , astronomy

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

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