The Dark Fantastic ? Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
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Product details:
- Publisher MI ? New York University
- Date of Publication 21 May 2019
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781479800650
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 237x161x26 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b/w illustration Illustrations, black & white 45
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Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature Association
Winner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards
Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, Nonfiction
Finalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative Fiction
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination
Stories 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 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.
The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW?s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins?s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC?s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling?s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world.
In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, ?we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.?
"One of the most radiant and thought-provoking descriptions of the potentials of fantastic literature." More
The Dark Fantastic ? Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
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