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The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games /

"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 publishin...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2019.
Series:Postmillennial pop.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.