Fandom, Now in Color : A Collection of Voices

Rukmini Pande

ISBN 10: 1609387287 / ISBN 13: 9781609387280

Published by University Of Iowa Press Dez 2020, 2020

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Neuware - Fandom, Now in Color gathers together seemingly contradictory narratives that intersect at the (in)visibility of race/ism in fandom and fan studies. These new narratives concern themselves with a broad swath of media, from cosplay and comics to tabletop roleplay and video games, and fandoms from Jane the Virgin to Japan's K-pop scene. Fandom, Now in Color asserts that no one answer or approach can sufficiently come to grips with the shifting categories of race, racism, and racial identity.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fandom, Now in Color : A Collection of Voices
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press Dez 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609387287
• ISBN 13: 9781609387280
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 226W x 152H x 20D millimeters 226 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 386 grams

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Synopsis

Fandom, Now in Color gathers together seemingly contradictory narratives that intersect at the (in)visibility of race/ism in fandom and fan studies. This collection engages the problem by undertaking the different tactics of decolonization—diversifying methodologies, destabilizing canons of “must-read” scholarship by engaging with multiple disciplines, making whiteness visible but not the default against which all other kinds of racialization must compete, and decentering white fans even in those fandoms where they are the assumed majority. These new narratives concern themselves with a broad swath of media, from cosplay and comics to tabletop roleplay and video games, and fandoms from Jane the Virgin to Japan’s K-pop scene. Fandom, Now in Color asserts that no one answer or approach can sufficiently come to grips with the shifting categories of race, racism, and racial identity.

Contributors: McKenna Boeckner, Angie Fazekas, Monica Flegel, Elizabeth Hornsby, Katherine Anderson Howell, Carina Lapointe, Miranda Ruth Larsen, Judith Leggatt, Jenni Lehtinen, joan miller, Swati Moitra, Samira Nadkarni, Indira Neill Hoch, Sam Pack, Rukmini Pande, Deepa Sivarajan, Al Valentín

About the Author

Rukmini Pande is assistant professor of English literature at O. P. Jindal Global University, New Delhi. She is author of Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race (Iowa, 2018). She lives in New Delhi, India.