Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? – Rachel Shave

Rachel Shave applies the work of Mikhail Bakhtin to suggest that slash fandom on the Internet constitutes “a new, imagined, carnival space”. Using Harry Potter slash as her example, Shave argues that slash provides a transitory, resistant site where norms are playfully inverted. After living in a magic mirror for over a dozen years, where … Continue reading Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? – Rachel Shave