| The Dark Fantastic Lib/E: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Contributor(s): Edwards, Janina (Read by), Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798200302154 Publisher: Tantor Audio OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 twenty-first 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. |
