TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yang, Ling
A1  - Bao, Hongwei
T1  - Queerly intimate friends, fans and affective communication in a Super Girl fan fiction community
JF  - Cultural studies : theorizing politics, politicizing theory
N2  - This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the 'Pink Super Girl Bar', an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in the Sinophone world. Through an ethnographic account of the formation, convention and performativity of identities and socialities in this community, we demonstrate how Super Girl GL fans mobilize their emotional capital to create artworks, to have fun and to enrich their everyday lives. We argue that the GL fan fiction community has become a space of female homosociality, intimacy and affect in which a new generation of young Chinese women actively enact friendship and female subjectivity in a way that refuses the normalization of gender, sexuality and social relations. Moreover, by linking fan studies to affect studies and emotional geography, and by paying particular attention to indigenous concepts and cultural practices in mainland China's fan communities, we wish to contribute to fan studies with feminist, queer and transnational perspectives.
KW  - Super Girl
KW  - fan fiction
KW  - Girls' Love
KW  - emotional geography
KW  - affective communication
KW  - fan community
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2012.679286
SN  - 0950-2386
VL  - 26
IS  - 6
SP  - 842
EP  - 871
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -