The Resource The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 225 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781479800650
- Label
- The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games
- Title
- The dark fantastic
- Title remainder
- race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games
- Statement of responsibility
- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1977-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 813/.8766093552
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.F27
- LC item number
- T475 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Postmillennial pop
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, English
- African Americans
- Literature and race
- Storytelling in mass media
- Label
- The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Control code
- on1057297554
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479800650
- Lccn
- 2018042917
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057297554
- Label
- The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to The hunger games, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Control code
- on1057297554
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 225 pages
- Isbn
- 9781479800650
- Lccn
- 2018042917
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1057297554
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