Hmm, I think my approach here is somehow connected to my approach to identity politics--that there be a self-understanding (on the part of the writer or the audience or the community as a whole, I don't know) of one's process being fanfiction is crucial, even if only in retrospect! Anything else seems to be too essentialist for my tastes, assuming that a work is fanfiction because of its characteristics rather than for its position within the symbol-system.
But ultimately it comes down to needing more than one axis.
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Date: 2007-04-13 12:48 pm (UTC)But ultimately it comes down to needing more than one axis.