Writing Oneself into Someone Else’s Story – Experiments With Identity And Speculative Life Writing in Twilight Fan Fiction
Lehtonen, S. (2015). Writing Oneself into Someone Else’s Story – Experiments With Identity And Speculative Life Writing in Twilight Fan Fiction. Fafnir : Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, 2(2), 7-18. http://journal.finfar.org/articles/316.pdf
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Fan fiction offers rich data to explore readers’ understanding of gendered
discourses informing the narrative construction of fictional and real-life identities.
This paper focuses on gender identity construction in self-insertion fan fiction texts
– stories that involve avatars of fan writers – based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight
novels. Self-insertion fan fiction stories can be considered a form of life writing
where authors play with their identity in a virtual context in texts that mix
documentary elements and fiction; a combination that is here termed as speculative
life writing. While earlier studies have discussed self-insertion fan fiction as a
potentially empowering form of resistance to conventional gendered discourses, or
a space for (young) women to explore and play with their gendered and sexual
identities, among fans themselves self-insertion fan fiction stories – especially
stories involving ‘Mary Sues’, characters that are highly idealised versions of the
author – are often ridiculed. By drawing on concepts from narrative theory,
discursive psychology and feminist discourse theory, the paper examines female
protagonists in selected self-insertion fanfics categorised as heterosexual romance
and relates these representations to readers’ comments about the stories. While selfinsertion
fan fiction as speculative life writing allows for creatively experimenting
with gendered identities, it is also conditioned by hegemonic gendered discourses
and the norms of the particular online community.
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