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Harlowe-quin Romance: Subversive Play at Love (and Sex) with Twine
model that its own authors rebelled against: “Harlequin thought of everything--except the readers, the authors, and the creative freedom which has traditionally been the cornerstone of literature in Western culture. This publishing giant molded romantic aspirations into super-rationalist forms of communication, the very antithesis of the readers' desires” (“Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises,” Feminist Studies 11.1, 54). This description of “molded” aspirations is not so different from the genre molds that dominate the landscape of mainstream gaming: the engines powering franchises place the same inescapable stamp as the Harlequin formula. Romance novels themselves have transformed in the wake of the “e-zines, chat rooms, and bulletin boards” (and their descendants) bringing authors and fans into direct dialogue (Rosalind Gill and Elena Herdieckerhoff, “Rewriting the romance: new femininities in chick lit?” Feminist Media Studies 6.4, 2006).
Amirah Mahomed - 05.09.2018 - 15:02
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Poética Quántica: Closing the Literary Gap in Latin American E-Lit
To read e-literature is to use multiple literacies. New media theory stresses the role of user interactivity or engagement, but it is critical to also engage with the hermeneutic readings leading us to question, what does it all mean? How is e-literature proposing phenomenological questions regarding selfhood/identity, communication, spirituality, consciousness?
Poets and artists are instinctively reflecting an awareness of the paradigm shift that surged with quantum mechanics. Curiously, those same theories have been part of the long tradition of ancient Eastern mysticism. This dialogue between the two that began in the 1950s and resurged in the mid 1970s is very vibrant and present in today’s electronic literatures, particularly those with poetic inclinations.
Miriam Takvam - 03.10.2018 - 15:21
