1st Edition
Loving Fanfiction Exploring the Role of Emotion in Online Fandoms
By Brit Kelley
Copyright 2021
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
232 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
Drawing on affect theory to explore the complex roles of emotions,... Read more
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. Fanfiction—A 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
Biography
Brit Kelley is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis.
