Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction

Pocket Publics
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-58433-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies

This book explores slash fan fiction communities during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and early 2000s as the practice transitioned from print to digital circulation.

Delving into over ten years of online and in-person ethnography, the book offers an in-depth examination of slash fan fiction – original stories written by and circulated within female-centered communities about same-sex characters borrowed from previously published sources – to document the history of a feminist, queer media subculture whose infrastructure, creativity, and ways of life are often obscured in dominant histories of the internet’s development and by the contemporary focus on industry-friendly but often misogynist digital fan subcultures. Arguing that online slash communities created an alternate public space that provided opportunities for unanticipated encounters with a wide range of complex sexual, relational, and political practices, the book contends that slash thereby added to readers’ tools for experiencing and thinking about pleasure and ways of living by forming a “pocket public,” that is a digital space public enough to be found and protected enough to shield participants from harassment and censorship.

This insightful and comprehensive study will interest students and scholars working in the areas of media studies, literary studies, anthropology, new media, audience communities, convergence culture, fan studies, women’s studies, and queer studies.

Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY- NC)] license. Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (grant 435-2019-0691).

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kustritz, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Section 1. Meeting People, Meeting Texts

Chapter 1. Mediated Travel and Digital Ethnography in Slash Spaces: Assembling Identity and Community

Chapter 2. Parallel Lives: Body Symbolism in a Multiple Narrative Space

Section 2. Simulating Multiple Narrative Space: Reading Across Slash Texts

Chapter 3. Five Ways Mary Sue Never Had Sex

Section 3. Structures and Skirmishes

Chapter 4. Telling Stories About Owning Stories: Pirate Narratives

Chapter 5. So, Is Fan Fiction Legal?: Fair Use, Transformative Works, and Schrödinger’s Courtroom

Chapter 6. The Business of Narrating the Law and the Communicative Ethics of Fandom

Section 4. Conclusion: Publics, Counterpublics, Pocket Publics

Chapter 7. Things I Never Imagined: Unpredictable Encounters in a Pocket Public

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Kustritz is an Assistant Professor in Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her work deals with creative fan communities, transformative works, digital economies, and representational politics.