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Race and Popular Fantasy Literature - Habits of Whiteness (Paperback)
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Race and Popular Fantasy Literature - Habits of Whiteness (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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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.
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