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Author Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth, 1977- author.

Title The dark fantastic : race and the imagination from Harry Potter to the hunger games / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2019]

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.F27 T475 2019    DUE 05-10-24 12:00AM  ---
Description vii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Postmillennial pop
Postmillennial pop.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Fantasy fiction, English.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Literature and race.
Literature and race.
Storytelling in mass media.
Storytelling in mass media.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN 1479800651
9781479800650 (cl ; alkaline paper)