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Race and Popular Fantasy Literature (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature),Used
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This book illuminates the racialized nature of twentyfirst 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 genres racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The books 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 postrace. The beginnings of the Fantasy genres 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 twentyfirst century subgenres which both reuse and subvert Fantasy conventions. The final chapter explores debates and antiracist praxis in authorial and fan communities. With its multipronged approach and innovative methodology, this book is an important and original contribution to studies of race, Fantasy, and twentyfirst century popular culture.
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