H/c and me: An autoethnographic account of a troubled love affair

Authors

  • Judith May Fathallah University of Cardiff

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0252

Keywords:

Fan fiction, Hurt/comfort

Abstract

An autoethnographic view of the hurt/comfort genre, its significance, and its appeal.

Author Biography

Judith May Fathallah, University of Cardiff

I am a doctoral candidate at the University of Cardiff. Having been a reader, writer and reviewer of fanfiction since 2001, I hope to complete my thesis on politics and self-fanfiction in fic and online fic communities. I hold a first degree in English from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Text is my first love, and I tend to view fanfic as literature first and foremost. However, I also believe that text is practice, and that literature itself, in its content, production and dissemination, is a political phenomenon. My interests include postmodernism and covergence, race and ethnicity, education, and gender studies.

Downloads

Published

2011-09-15

Issue

Vol. 7 (2011)

Section

Symposium

License

TWC Nos. 25 onward are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC by 4.0). For an explanation of the journal's reasoning, see the TWC editorial Copyright and Open Access. TWC Nos. 1 through 24 are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, with TWC, not the author, retaining copyright.

Presses whose policies require written permission for reproduction should contact the TWC Editor; such permission is routinely given for no fee.