The Dark Fantastic : : Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games / / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imaginationStories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 b/w illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination Gap
- 1 Toward a Theory of the Dark Fantastic
- 2 Lamentations of a Mockingjay: The Hunger Games’ Rue and Racial Innocence in the Dark Fantastic
- 3 A Queen out of Place: Dark Fantastic Dreaming and the Spacetime Politics of Gwen in BBC’s Merlin
- 4 The Curious Case of Bonnie Bennett: The Vampire Diaries and the Monstrous Contradiction of the Dark Fantastic
- 5 Hermione Is Black: A Postscript to Harry Potter and the Crisis of Infinite Dark Fantastic Worlds
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author