A Hard Day’s Write

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-210
Author(s):  
Mark Duffett
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Unrequited Love ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
John Lennon ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
Practice Community

Fan fiction is, ordinarily, nonprofessional writing—premised thematically on media texts, celebrities, or artistic creations. Some fanfic uses public figures as the basis for characters and is called real person fiction (RPF). Bandfic is a subgenre of RPF involving rock musicians. Slash fiction is a subset of fanfic involving same-sex intimacy between central characters. Real person slash (RPS) is a fanfic subgenre that hybridizes RPF with slash and can involve pairs of musicians. One typical Beatles fanfic story on Archive of Our Own, is listed as male-to-male romance between John Lennon and Paul McCartney and tagged with angst, love confessions, rejection, unrequited love, and period-typical homophobia. In academia, discussions about such fanfic have covered copyright, fan labor or play, fan literacy and reading practice, community-created archives, world building, identity politics, or subversion and censorship. This chapter considers a less-discussed question: how does RPF about the Beatles relate to celebrity fandom?

scholarly journals Real body, fake person: Recontextualizing celebrity bodies in fandom and film

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Piper
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Star Image ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Real People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Textual Bodies ◽  
Real Person

Comparisons between real person fan fiction (RPF) and film or television texts dramatizing real people have been made in debates over the ethics of RPF as a fan practice. In an effort to direct the scholarly focus on RPF from these ethical issues to the texts themselves, I propose examining the similarities between the textual process of adapting real people to fictional characters on both the cinema screen and the computer screen. This paper examines the work RPF writers do in appropriating the various bodies of their celebrity subjects: the fragmented intertextual body of the star image, and the celebrity's physical body as a signifier of star image and status as a real person in the world. I argue that the fannish textual process of adapting real public figures to fictional contexts shares a common element with adapting public figures to the screen in the biopic: both work to recontextualize the public self of a celebrity through the representation of a fictionalized or speculated private self. To illustrate this, I will be engaging with a case study of The Social Network (2010) fandom through works in its kink meme, and how the adaptations of textual bodies are at work in fictionalized fan writing about real actors performing in the Hollywood fictionalized film about real tech entrepreneurs.

“Your Young Lesbian Sisters”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Amanda H. Littauer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Legal Structures

Drawing on letters and essays written by teenage girls in the 1970s and early 1980s, and building on my historical research on same-sex desiring girls and girlhoods in the postwar United States, I ask how teenage girls in the 1970s and early 1980s pursued answers to questions about their feelings, practices, and identities and expressed their subjectivities as young lesbian feminists. These young writers, I argue, recognized that they benefitted from more resources and role models than did earlier generations, but they objected to what they saw as adult lesbians’ ageism, caution, and neglect. In reaching out to sympathetic straight and lesbian public figures and publications, girls found new ways to combat the persistent isolation and oppression faced by youth whose autonomy remained severely restricted by familial, educational, and legal structures.

scholarly journals "Let's get those Winchesters pregnant": Male pregnancy in Supernatural fan fiction

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berit Åström
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Male Pregnancy ◽  
Gender And Genre

This article investigates mpreg slash fiction—same-sex relationships featuring male pregnancy—based on the television series Supernatural, looking at issues of gender and genre. It has been argued that slash writing is a highly subversive and resisting activity, appropriating someone else's characters and rewriting the romance script to suit different tastes than those prescribed by patriarchy. Yet fan fic texts are very diverse and it is difficult, if not impossible, to draw any general conclusions from them. The theme of male pregnancy has the potential to produce narratives that challenge our notions of gender, identity, sexual and social practices, as well as parenthood. Although the fan fiction I have analyzed all deals with these notions in various ways, the focus lies elsewhere. The authors of the texts focus more on exploring Sam and Dean as fathers and homemakers, on writing about family life, with all its traditional trappings. When the authors bring pregnancy into the equation, they draw on narrative and social conventions that follow this experience, resulting in conventional stories set in a very unconventional universe.

scholarly journals (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian-Refugee-ness in Lebanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Sabiha Allouche
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Empirical Level

This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state (in this case Lebanon) and the lived reality of (Syrian) LGBT refugees results in a “one size fits all” narrative that forces the latter into a more visible and potentially death-instigating corporeality. The interplay between refugees and the receiving state is summed up in the elitist discourse of a “Syrian neo-invasion” that results in the revival of an “authentic Lebanese masculinity.” Whereas the Syrian refugee is vilified as “rapist” in a heterosexual context, they are emasculated as “necessarily bottom” in a same-sex one. This discourse is hegemonized through its emergence at the intersection of sect, political loyalty, and class. At the empirical level, this paper draws on narratives recollected during fieldwork in order to show the limits of an analysis that takes identity politics as given, as seen in asylum organization’s western-imbued “fixed” interpretations of what LGBT identities should “look like” and “act like.”

scholarly journals A Shadow of Truth: Honor Klein in Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Barbora Kašpárková
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
Narrative Function

Abstract Iris Murdoch’s novel A Severed Head (1961) is an example of convoluted relationships that may appear hilarious upon superficial analysis. A close reading, however, reveals the suffering triggered by the behaviour of the central characters. The most mysterious female protagonist, the sexually ambivalent Honor Klein, deploys a wide range of possible interpretations. Honor’s powerful figure is like an axis around which the rest of the characters rotate and without whom the plot would fall apart. The question is, nonetheless, if she is a real figure or not. This paper argues that this pivotal character is not a real person but a dreamy and ghostly concentration of elements in relation to the protagonist Martin Lynch-Gibbon. Honor Klein is a force, is suspicion, and fear, and seems to be an external projection of Martin’s subconscious imaginary fears and trauma. She has a similar narrative function as Shakespeare‘s ghosts in, e.g., Macbeth, Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

scholarly journals (Dis)-Intersecting Intersectionality in the Time of Queer Syrian-Refugee-ness in Lebanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Summer) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Sabiha Allouche
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Empirical Level

This paper heeds Jasbir Puar’s call to supplement an intersectional analysis with an exercise of assemblage when examining identity politics. It argues that asylum organizations’ unwillingness to account for the interplay between the receiving state (in this case Lebanon) and the lived reality of (Syrian) LGBT refugees results in a “one size fits all” narrative that forces the latter into a more visible and potentially death-instigating corporeality. The interplay between refugees and the receiving state is summed up in the elitist discourse of a “Syrian neo-invasion” that results in the revival of an “authentic Lebanese masculinity.” Whereas the Syrian refugee is vilified as “rapist” in a heterosexual context, they are emasculated as “necessarily bottom” in a same-sex one. This discourse is hegemonized through its emergence at the intersection of sect, political loyalty, and class. At the empirical level, this paper draws on narratives recollected during fieldwork in order to show the limits of an analysis that takes identity politics as given, as seen in asylum organization’s western-imbued “fixed” interpretations of what LGBT identities should “look like” and “act like.”

Being Gay

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Stychin
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gay Identity ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Final Question ◽  
Political Logic

AbstractThe article provides an overview of gay identity politics today. It begins with an introduction to the historical trajectory of the post-1945 period, and then turns to the challenges posed by queer politics and theory to gay identity politics. The related issue of the globalization of being gay is then considered, in terms of the universalizing of identity politics. Finally, the ramifications for gay identity politics of the political and legal recognition of same-sex relationships are discussed, leading to the obvious final question: whether being gay will continue to have a political logic in the years ahead.

scholarly journals The creation of football slash fan fiction

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abby Waysdorf
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Sports Fandom ◽  
European Football ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Real Person ◽  
High Level ◽  
Slash Fan Fiction

Although sports fandom and fan fiction are often thought of as different worlds, in the contemporary media environment, this is not the case. Sport is a popular source text for fan fiction, and high-level European football, one of the world's most watched sports, has long had an online fan fiction presence. In a study of the LiveJournal community Footballslash over the 2011–12 European football season, I investigate what makes football a suitable source text for fan fiction, especially slash fan fiction; what fan fiction authors are doing with football; and what this suggests about how football and fan fiction are used in the present day. I present a new understanding of football as a media text to be transformed as well as provide an in-depth look into how this type of real person slash is developed and thought of by its practitioners. In doing so, I show what happens when fandoms and fan practices converge in the 21st century.

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