Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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