Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction - Pocket Publics

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Kustritz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032584348
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258434-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; History, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, The arts, Humanities, Communication Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Literary studies: general, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides