عنوان

Race and popular fantasy literature :

(Number (ISBN

1138850233

(Number (ISBN

9781138850231

Erroneous ISBN

9781315724843

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Title Proper

Race and popular fantasy literature :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

habits of whiteness /

First Statement of Responsibility

Helen Young

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

224 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;

Volume Designation

30

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index

Text of Note

Introduction: Re-thinking genre, thinking about race -- Founding fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard -- Forming habits: derivation, imitation, and adaptation -- The real middle ages: gritty fantasy -- Orcs and otherness: monsters on page and screen -- Popular culture postcolonialism -- Relocating roots: urban fantasy -- Breaking habits and digital communication

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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.

Fantasy fiction-- History and criticism

Fantasy fiction, American-- History and criticism

Fantasy fiction, English-- History and criticism

Popular culture and literature-- Great Britain-- History

Popular culture and literature-- United States-- History

Race in literature

Whites in literature

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Book number

Young, Helen, (Helen Victoria)

Date of Transaction

20181211124938.0

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[Book]

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