Amateur Creativity: Contemporary Literature and the Digital Publishing Scene

The ease and ubiquity of digital publishing have enabled the "mass amateurization" of the critical, creative, and communicative arts, allowing amateurs to bypass the gatekeeping practices of specific institutions (e.g. the gallery, the newspaper, the publishing house), and to perform acts...

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Published in:	New literary history 2017-01, Vol.48 (1), p.27-51
Main Author:	Vadde, Aarthi
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 2000-2099 Amateurism Amateurs Atwood, Margaret Audiences Authorship Beukes, Lauren Bibliography Canadian literature Collaboration Contemporary Publishing and Bookselling Copyright Creative writing Creativity Culture Digital broadcasting Digital Culture Doctorow, Cory Electronic Publishing English language literature English Literature Ferrante, Elena Fiction Foucault, Michel Internet Italian literature Language, Literature, and the Computer Literature Novels Publishing Reading Scholars Self-Publication self-publishing Social networks Sociology South African literature Twenty-First Century Web 2.0 Writers Writing Wu Ming
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Summary:	The ease and ubiquity of digital publishing have enabled the "mass amateurization" of the critical, creative, and communicative arts, allowing amateurs to bypass the gatekeeping practices of specific institutions (e.g. the gallery, the newspaper, the publishing house), and to perform acts of photography, journalism, or authorship without necessarily identifying with a specialized guild or benefitting from its resources.1 Whether a cause of chagrin or excitement, the digital domain of publishing culture is definitively changing the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, and audiences conceive of their creative works and creative selves. [...]literary historians and scholars of the arts broadly must better understand how creative works absorb audiences into their worlds and compel those audiences to extend those worlds in the form of fan fiction, unorthodox redistribution, and other kinds of collaborative invention.
ISSN:	0028-6087 1080-661X 1080-661X