Intimate Intertextuality and Performative Fragments in Media Fanfiction
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| Academic Commentary | |
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| Title: | Intimate Intertextuality and Performative Fragments in Media Fanfiction |
| Commentator: | Kristina Busse |
| Date(s): | 2017 |
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| Fandom: | |
| External Links: | PDF from author's website |
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Intimate Intertextuality and Performative Fragments in Media Fanfiction is an article by Kristina Busse exploring the relationship of fanfiction to other fanfics within the same fandom.
Summary
Excerpts
[F]anfiction is in conversation not only with the source text, but usually also with other stories in the fandom and the discussions that permeate the community. Thus, it seems useful not to look at a story as if it were a distinct and isolated piece of art, but instead to acknowledge its social and communicative aspects. Fan stories always are a response to the source text, often are produced in communication with several other fans, and likely are part of a conversation with other stories and discussions. In fact, while some stories are envisioned as autonomous artifacts and thus can be read by anyone unfamiliar with the source text, a large (if not larger) number of stories rely on an audience that is familiar with the source text and likely also the fantext, that is, the ever-growing collection of other fan stories.[1]
Fannish Commentary
This essay is absolutely fundamental to the way I think about fanfiction and it feels really comforting or useful to keep in mind, in some ways - it explains both some ways I love to write fanfic independent of fannish contexts (motivated by my initial impressions of and understandings of a source text) or as part of the conversation (ie: by participating in meta, joining in on or paying attention to larger conversations between fans, tossing ideas around with my friend, or participating in fandom events). [2]
References
- ^ Intimate Intertextuality and Performative Fragments in Media Fanfiction, Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Revised second edition. Ed. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington. New York: NYU Press, 2017. p. 51.
- ^ Tumblr post by lightdescending, 2021.