Fan fiction: troubling desire through text

Authors

  • Ana Alcalá Espinosa Universitat de Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2023408771

Keywords:

technologies of gender, fandom studies, gender studies, feminist literary theory, cultural studies, écriture féminine, Hélène Cixous, Teresa de Lauretis

Abstract

This essay explores the possibilites of fanfiction as a disruptive literary genre, which opens a path for the inscription of alternative subjectivities. Fanfiction authors write about their desires at the same time that they explore subjectivities through the text that have been pushed to the margins of society throughout history (such as homosexuality, transgender and female experiences). But. how do they write this, exactly? Thanks to the analysis of two fanfiction texts, we can see how the authors play with the limits of desire, sex, gender and body.

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Published

2023-07-06

How to Cite

Alcalá Espinosa, A. (2023). Fan fiction: troubling desire through text. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (40), 351–368. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2023408771

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Papers
Received 2023-03-08
Accepted 2023-05-02
Published 2023-07-06