The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.
Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth, 1977- author.
2019
PS374.F27 T475 2019 (Mapit)
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Title The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.
Author Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth, 1977- author.
ISBN 9781479800650 (hardcover)
1479800651 (hardcover)
Published New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Language English
Description vii, 225 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS374.F27 T475 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.8766093552
Summary The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. In an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some popular stories of the early 21st century and reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. -- adapted from jacket
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index
Series Postmillennial pop.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction: The dark fantastic : race and the imagination gap
Toward a theory of the dark fantastic
Lamentations of a Mockingjay : The Hunger Games' Rue and racial innocence in the dark fantastic
A queen out of place : dark fantastic dreaming and the spacetime politics of Gwen in BBC's Merlin
The curious case of Bonnie Bennett : The vampire diaries and the monstrous contradiction of the dark fantastic
Hermione is black : a postscript on Harry Potter and the crisis of infinite dark fantastic worlds
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author.

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