Repetitions of Desire: Queering the One Direction Fangirl. Issue 1 (1st March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Repetitions of Desire: Queering the One Direction Fangirl. Issue 1 (1st March 2019)
- Main Title:
- Repetitions of Desire
- Authors:
- McCann, Hannah
Southerton, Clare - Abstract:
- Abstract : Like other fangirls, fans of former boyband One Direction ("Directioners") have often been represented in media discourse as obsessive and hysterical, with fan behaviour interpreted as longing for heterosexual intimacy with band members. Subverting this heteronormative framing, a group of Directioners known as "Larries" have built a sub-fandom around imagining a relationship ("ship") between two of the band members, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. Representation of the Larry fandom has gone beyond pathologizing fangirls to framing their shipping practice in terms of "fake news." The conspiracy theory panic around Larries misses the complex ways that subtext and queer reading are mobilized within the fandom to invoke feelings of queer intimacy and belonging. Drawing on a digital ethnography conducted on Twitter with Larries, we argue that these fans engage in queer reading strategies to explicitly imagine and interrupt dominant heterosexual narratives, and thus queer the figure of the fangirl.
- Is Part Of:
- Girlhood studies. Volume 12:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Girlhood studies
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0012-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 49
- Page End:
- 65
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-01
- Subjects:
- digital ethnography -- fandom -- intimacy -- pop culture -- queer theory
Girls -- Periodicals
Girls -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Girls -- Social conditions -- Periodicals
Girls -- Education -- Periodicals
Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Periodicals
Girls -- Health and hygiene -- Periodicals
Women's studies -- Periodicals
305.23082 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/girlhood-studies-overview.xml ↗
- DOI:
- 10.3167/ghs.2019.120106 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1938-8209
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- Legaldeposit
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