Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032584331 / Twarda / 2023 / 312 str.

Anne Kustritz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

A highly generative work, Pocket Publics promises to revitalize the study of the fan fiction writing community with a wealth of original contributions, including a focus on ethnographic methodology and the link to insider ethnography as practiced in anthropology, the diversity of different approaches to sexuality in fan fiction, the discussion of how fans understand their work in relation to charges of piracy, the focus on the nature of fandom as a public, and so much more.

Henry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

A timely work of scholarship that addresses the complex ways that slash communities move between being public and invisible, seeking a pocket of creative freedom to imagine a world not yet imagined.

Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

While there has been an explosion of fan studies scholarship in the last two decades, we haven’t had an ethnography of fan fiction communities since the early 1990s. Kustritz’s Pocket Publics rectifies that, documenting the generation of slash fans who built much of fandom’s infrastructure and many of its community spaces, both on and off the internet. This generation has had an outsized impact on contemporary fan cultures, and Kustritz shows how these fans created an alternative and subcultural public sphere: a world of their own. A fascinating and engaging book.

Francesca Coppa, author of Vidding: A History

Spis treści

Introduction                                                                                                                 

Section 1.  Meeting People, Meeting Texts

Chapter 1.  Mediated Travel and Digital Ethnography in Slash Spaces: Assembling Identity and Community Through Sexual Textual Exchange

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

 

O autorze

Anne Kustritz is 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.