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“Going Native”: Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 2, June 2014
- pp. 33-49
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0011
- Article
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This essay explores an experimental method for how an academic interested in popular romance fiction might study this bestselling genre. It sets out a practice for negotiating the “aca-fan” tension in the growing field of popular romance studies, based on methods of the aca-fan-writer, observant participation, and performative ethnography.