‘Thighs Fell Apart’: online fan fiction, and African writing in a digital age
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DOI: 10.1080/13696815.2016.1201652
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay foregrounds Web's 2.0 recuperation of agency for the modern fan-reader of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart through a critical dilation of Kiru Taye’s ‘Thighs Fell Apart’, an online short story that details… read more here.
Keywords: online fan; fell apart; thighs fell; fan fiction ... See more keywords
Race insanity: intertextual discursive practices challenging race and ethnicity in the digital age
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DOI: 10.1080/2005615x.2017.1313018
Abstract: AbstractIn the global communicative landscape of the digital age, researchers and educators need a more nuanced understanding of identity creation. This paper analysed how fan fiction writers create representations of identity in their personal profiles… read more here.
Keywords: race; fan fiction; digital age; discursive practices ... See more keywords