Fanfiction as Queer Healing
Femslash Authorship and the Swan Queen Ship
- 232 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media and fiction), this book analyses fan-authored works as forms of literature worthy of studying at length. It examines the anti-racist, feminist, sapphic fan works produced in response to white supremacist, heteronormative, queerbaiting mainstream fantasy and argues that they represent a significant site of queer healing for marginalised audience members. Focusing on the 'Swan Queen' fandom, where fans pair the 'white trash' heroine, Emma Swan and the villainous Latina Evil Queen (Regina Mills) from ABC's hit show Once Upon a Time, Alice Kelly redresses the widespread academic neglect of queer female fandoms and responds to urgent calls to diversify fan and fantasy scholarship. With reference to complex theoretical subjects such as ethnography, sociology, psychology and decolonial, queer, film and media studies, the book also delves into the alternative timescales on which queer female and genderqueer fan authorship runs; offers intriguing insights into fanfiction narrative structures; and tackles the issues of broader fandom representation and contextualization. Making the case that fan texts deserve attention in the academy, Kelly shows how some of the most prolific fan works have the ability to enact colour reparation and a reclamation of memory, fantasy, romance, maternity, childhood, parenting and magic. These fictions serve fan communities as a whole through intersectional challenges to the power dynamics of the source text and within the fandom itself and, as the book demonstrates, offer attendant validation to fantasy fans who have been repeatedly told that the genre is not for them.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: âWe wrote them fairytales, and we wrote ourselves fairytalesâ
- Part 1 Queering genre
- 1 âSeason One . . . Episode Oneâ: Remembering femslash fandom in coalitiongirlâs Send Up a Signal (that everythingâs fine) (2015c)
- 2 âalways the cureâ: Reclaiming darkness in lostlilsnailâs Striking Down Roots (2018a)
- 3 âover and over and over againâ: Rescripting romance in deemnâs Cops & Robbers (2014c)
- Part 2 Queering family
- 4 âlungs and blood and foolish heart all yearningâ: Embodied non-biological maternity in everdeenâs iâve tried to resist being last on your list (2016)
- 5 âWelcome home, queridaâ: Childrenâs books, belonging and being enough in amycareyâs Down The Rabbit Hole (2014)
- 6 âA small body held against her chestâ: Parenting pasts and futures in gingerandhoneyâs When you think all is lost, look again (2015)
- Part 3 Queering magic
- 7 âencuentre a la que deje atrĂĄsâ (âfind the one I left behindâ): Finding home and re-enchanting community in DiazTunaâs In the Night (2019b) and In the Day (2020b)
- Epilogue: âpassing stillnessâ
- References
- Index
- Copyright