Is it possible to write a narrative that contains characters who are *ist (racist, sexist, misogynist, homophic, transphobic, fat-phobic), and wherein the fic structure isn't designed to provide either cosmic retribution of an after-school special teaching moment, and not have the fic be inherently *ist itself?
Yes, and one way to do that is - as you've done in your example - to have the principle characters be part of the minority/disprivileged group your *ism is about. I think your fic would probably take on a different meaning if a straight character told either Bassanio or Antonio that they were going to hell, and the whole thing were about [straight character]'s justification for thinking that way. By having Bassanio and Antonio in a romantic/sexual relationship, even with the acknowledgement of homophobia, I think you're subverting their words with their actions.
As for the other *isms... I don't know. Not one story can be or cover everything, and that's okay -- possibly to an extent, and maybe depending on how blatantly other themes/tropes/stereotypes pop up. To use an original fic example, I LOVE Girl Overboard, but it doesn't have any queer characters or characters with a disability; it doesn't denigrate them, but they don't show up in the canon, which adds to their overall invisibility. It's also very good about race and feminism (and class?), and matches up in areas where I'm not privileged as well as where I am, so I'm okay with it.
I also thought this fic did a great job showing the POV of some ordinary, bigoted guy without it being a reflection on the author. But it's not really something I need to read a lot of or would ask for -- I don't think it's a bad thing to specify one does not want that. It's not much different from not wanting dark or unhappy fics, I think.
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Yes, and one way to do that is - as you've done in your example - to have the principle characters be part of the minority/disprivileged group your *ism is about. I think your fic would probably take on a different meaning if a straight character told either Bassanio or Antonio that they were going to hell, and the whole thing were about [straight character]'s justification for thinking that way. By having Bassanio and Antonio in a romantic/sexual relationship, even with the acknowledgement of homophobia, I think you're subverting their words with their actions.
As for the other *isms... I don't know. Not one story can be or cover everything, and that's okay -- possibly to an extent, and maybe depending on how blatantly other themes/tropes/stereotypes pop up. To use an original fic example, I LOVE Girl Overboard, but it doesn't have any queer characters or characters with a disability; it doesn't denigrate them, but they don't show up in the canon, which adds to their overall invisibility. It's also very good about race and feminism (and class?), and matches up in areas where I'm not privileged as well as where I am, so I'm okay with it.
I also thought this fic did a great job showing the POV of some ordinary, bigoted guy without it being a reflection on the author. But it's not really something I need to read a lot of or would ask for -- I don't think it's a bad thing to specify one does not want that. It's not much different from not wanting dark or unhappy fics, I think.