Squee from the margins
Subtitle: fandom and race
By: Rukmini Pande
Series: Fandom & culture; Fandom & culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781609386184
Subjects: Fan fiction; History and criticism; Literature and the Internet
Description: "Rukmini Pande's ground-breaking examination of race in fan studies is sure to make an immediate contribution to the growing field. Until now, virtually no sustained examination of race-and racism-in transnational fan cultures has taken place, a lack that is especially ironic since current fan spaces have never been more vocal about debating issues of privilege and discrimination. Pande's study challenges dominant ideas of who fans are and how these complex transnational/cultural spaces function, expanding the scope of the field significantly. The study's theoretical mapping, in a departure from conventional fandom studies, positions media fandom as a postcolonial cyberspace. This is a significant move as it illustrates how innovative modes of analysis can impel scholars to take a more inclusive view of fan identity. By including fan interviews, Pande's analysis spans both the historical and the contemporary moment to build a case for the ways in which non-white fans have always been present in such spaces, though consistently ignored"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dial me up, Scotty : fandoms as platforms for women's online identity; title: Can you stop the signal?  Online media fandom as postcolonial cyberspace; title: Aang still ain't white : postcolonial praxis; title: Recalibration necessary, Mr. Spock : race and the dynamics of media fandom; title: But, how is that sexy? The fan fiction kink meme.