Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

has resolved to look "closely at the language" and at "the [fannish] group's linguistic play"

just as the relationship between writers and readers existsin a queer female space, so too does the writer/writer collaboration.

Bacon-Smith fails to accurately depict the diversity of fandom as she tries to impose universal interpretive models;

one could define fan

tended to focus on the ways it is perceived to encapsulate the relationship between subgroupsand the dominant hegemony.

The existence of fan fiction postulates that characters are able to "walk" not only from one artwork into another, but from one genre into another;

textual considerations come after discussions of cultural reception, and production issues still focus on the "primary" media text.'

To author a text is to have power over it, to take public responsibility for it, regardless of whether or not one did the actual work of selecting words and putting them in order. Authorship is a sign of control rather than creation.

more than one text could coexist in a close relationship on the page.