Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
Habits of Whiteness
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 September 2015
- ISBN 9781138850231
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Halftones, black & white 0
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Short description:
This book illuminates the racialized nature of 21st-C Western popular culture by studying how discourses of race circulate in popular Fantasy. It examines the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege enacted within creative works and surrounding communities. An interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties of Western pop culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. It explores major texts, and the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation, making a vital contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and 21st-C pop culture.
MoreLong description:
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genre’s racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The book’s interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Fantasy genre’s habits of whiteness in the twentieth century are examined, with an exploration of the continuing impact of older problematic works through franchising, adaptation, and imitation. Young also discusses the major twenty-first century sub-genres which both re-use and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and anti-racist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multi-pronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twenty-first century popular culture.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: Re-thinking Genre, Thinking About Race 1. Founding Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard 2. Forming Habits: Derivation, Imitation, and Adaptation 3. The Real Middle Ages: Gritty Fantasy 4. Orcs and Otherness: Monsters on Page and Screen 5. Popular Culture Postcolonialism 6. Relocating Roots: Urban Fantasy 7. Breaking Habits and Digital Communication Afterword
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