Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality

Remember Things: Consumerism, Nostalgia, and Geek Culture in Stranger Things

“… Bueno Bernardo, in his analysis of geeks in the media, defines geek metafiction as “the kind of fiction that reflects on geek culture or portrays geek characters as central points in the narrative …. [It] is the kind of text that looks at itself as an investigation of, or reflection on, geek culture and the geek identity, and does so through an intense and overt intertextuality” (104). …”