The dark fantastic, race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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The dark fantastic, race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The dark fantastic
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bibliography
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1057297554
Responsibility statement
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Series statement
Postmillennial pop
Sub title
race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games
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
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- Storytelling in mass media
- African Americans + Intellectual life
- BIPOC + Intellectual life
- Literature -- General
- Minority groups + Intellectual life
- Fantasy fiction, English + History and criticism + Theory, etc
- Literary criticism
- Black people + Intellectual life
- Fantasy fiction, American + History and criticism + Theory, etc
- Literature and race
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- Storytelling in mass media
- African Americans + Intellectual life
- BIPOC + Intellectual life
- Literature -- General
- Minority groups + Intellectual life
- Fantasy fiction, English + History and criticism + Theory, etc
- Literary criticism
- Black people + Intellectual life
- Fantasy fiction, American + History and criticism + Theory, etc
- Literature and race
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