"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"--
Rukmini Pande’s 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 concerning given that current fan spaces have never been more vocal about debating issues of privilege and discrimination.
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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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1 Dial Me Up, Scotty: Fandoms as Platforms for Women's Online Identity |
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21 | (24) |
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2 Can You Stop the Signal? Online Media Fandom as Postcolonial Cyberspace |
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45 | (30) |
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3 Aang Still Ain't White: Postcolonial Praxis |
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75 | (36) |
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4 Recalibration Necessary, Mr. Spock: Race and the Dynamics of Media Fandom |
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111 | (34) |
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5 But, How Is That Sexy? The Fan Fiction Kink Meme |
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145 | (40) |
| Conclusion: Toward Decolonizing Fan Studies |
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185 | (12) |
| Notes |
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197 | (6) |
| References |
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203 | (26) |
| Index |
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Rukmini Pande is an assistant professor at O. P. Jindal Global University, New Delhi. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Fandom Studies and has been published in multiple edited collections, including The Wiley Companion to Fan Studies, Seeing Fans, and Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, as well as the journals Transformative Works and Cultures and the Journal of Feminist Scholarship.
