What is it about?
The essay examines an important form of literature, fanfic (Fan Fiction), first created in the 1970s and later developed on the internet. Fanfic is the postmodern offspring of media fandom. Fans write for fans, borrowing characters from popular media. In proficient fanfic, the members of transnational, vocational, virtual cultural communities must erase their individual cultural background. This essay looks at a wide range of fanfic written in Ireland, to investigate the tension between media 'universes' and 'national' literatures.
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Why is it important?
The invention of fanfic has reconfigured our understanding of literature in a number of areas. The consequences of transnational virtual citizenships to national literatures is an area which needs to be explored more thoroughly. In addition, this was the first academic article to look at fanfic in the context of Irish Studies.
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This page is a summary of: Fanfic in Ireland: No Country, No Sex, No Money, No Name, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9780230800588_6.
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