Loving Fanfiction

Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online fanfiction. Through exploring fans' narratives about themselves and the fanwork they produce and consume, the author theorizes how identity, cognition, emotion, the body, and embodiment come together in literacy development and practices.

Autorentext

Brit Kelley is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis.

Klappentext

Loving Fanfiction explores emotion within the context of fandoms, specifically online fanfiction. Through exploring fans' narratives about themselves and the fanwork they produce and consume, the author theorizes how identity, cognition, emotion, the body, and embodiment come together in literacy development and practices.

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Introduction 1. Emotioned Research Methods The Ethics of Online Fanfiction Research 2. Emotion Economies: The Complex Emotional Nexus that Makes Online Fanfiction Work 3. Fanfiction on the Margins: Fanfiction as Feminised and Racialised Practice 4. FanfictionA Family Affair? 5. Family, Friends, and Desire: lilo's Emotioned Fan Literacy 6. Growing Out (?) of Fanfiction: madshrubbery's journey from fanfic to o-fic 7. Conclusion: Emotioned Literacy Practices