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."
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