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Autore di Genre, Reception, and Adaptation in the Twilight Series
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[b]ecause we know, for instance, that Meyer believes Bella constitutes a slate blank enough for readers to ‘easily step into her shoes,’ Meyer’s priileged classes instantly become visible by showing us what she thinks of as invisible. Unsurprisingly, they are traits about herself that we can assume she takes for granted: white, female, middle-class, heterosexual, America, Judeo-Christian, etc…. The fan, then, is the intended reader who either does not know or does not care what ideologies construct her, while the anti-fan is the intended reader who does know, and resists, but, because she will never be able to throw off completely that which constructs her, remains vulnerable to manipulation of the powerful triggers of those ideologies.
I was particularly intrigued by her argument that Bella and Edward were so effective because Meyer split Mary Sue in two, “funnel[ing] each of Mary Sue’s two primary objectives—author insertion and wish-fulfillment—individually into Bella and Edward, respectively.” This makes Twilight the story of two sides of a single being “meeting and attempting to reunite into the whole character they were meant to be,” tapping into primal yearning for integration in readers as well.