In a media ecologyinundated by unauthorized materials, David S. Roh suggests that extralegalworks such as fan fiction are critical to a system that spurs the evolution ofculture. Illegal Literature argues that the proliferation ofunsanctioned texts may actually benefit literary and cultural development.
David S. Roh is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. He is coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media.
