Cultural Politics in Harry Potter
Life, Death and the Politics of Fear
Herausgeber: Alderete-Diez, Pilar; Jarazo-Alvarez, Ruben
Cultural Politics in Harry Potter
Life, Death and the Politics of Fear
Herausgeber: Alderete-Diez, Pilar; Jarazo-Alvarez, Ruben
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With special emphasis on the cultural representation of wizarding biopolitics, death, trauma and terror, this volume transits and examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed, and the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear.
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With special emphasis on the cultural representation of wizarding biopolitics, death, trauma and terror, this volume transits and examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed, and the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 376g
- ISBN-13: 9780367206635
- ISBN-10: 0367206633
- Artikelnr.: 57732497
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 376g
- ISBN-13: 9780367206635
- ISBN-10: 0367206633
- Artikelnr.: 57732497
Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. He teaches Cultural and Media Studies. His research comprises British tele-fantasy, sci-fi and Anglophone cultures in Spain. Pilar Alderete-Diez is a Lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She teaches language, translation and interpreting, and modern children's literature and film. She completed an MA (Spanish) on the translation of humour and character voice in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2005.
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
PART 1. Wizarding (Bio)politics and Intersected Discourses
1. The Chosen One(s): Ethnic Election and Contemporary English National
Identity in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series.
2. Squibs, Disability and Having a Place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
3. A Magic Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Luna Lovegood and the Concept of
Postfeminism.
4. "Like an Old Tale": Art and Transformation in the Harry Potter Novels
and The Winter's Tale.
PART 2. Death Culture, Trauma and Anxiety
5. Death Sells: Relatable Death in the Harry Potter Novels.
6. The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and Western Anxiety about Death.
7. "A Story About How Humans Are Frightened of Death": Harry Potter, Death
and the Cultural Imagination.
8. Arthur, Harry and the Late Mother: From T.H. White to J.K. Rowling.
9. King's Cross: Harry Potter and the Transformative Power of Pain and
Suffering.
10. When Spares are Spared: Innocent Bystanders and Survivor's Guilt in
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
11. Death Culture, Literary References and Postmodern Sacred Elements in
Harry Potter as a Transmedia Franchise.
12. Death and How to Deal With it in the Harry Potter Series.
PART 3. Trauma, the Politics of Fear and Postmodern Transformations
13. Al-Qa'ida and the Horcruxes: Quests for Immortality by Violent
Extremist Organizations and Lord Voldemort.
14. Gender, Sexuality and the War on Terror in Harry Potter and Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.
15. Magic as Technological Utopia? Unpacking Issues of Interactivity and
Infrastructuring in the Potterverse.
16. Flirting with Posthumanist Technologies in Harry Potter:
Overconsumption of a Good Thing - Technology as Magic.
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
PART 1. Wizarding (Bio)politics and Intersected Discourses
1. The Chosen One(s): Ethnic Election and Contemporary English National
Identity in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series.
2. Squibs, Disability and Having a Place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
3. A Magic Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Luna Lovegood and the Concept of
Postfeminism.
4. "Like an Old Tale": Art and Transformation in the Harry Potter Novels
and The Winter's Tale.
PART 2. Death Culture, Trauma and Anxiety
5. Death Sells: Relatable Death in the Harry Potter Novels.
6. The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and Western Anxiety about Death.
7. "A Story About How Humans Are Frightened of Death": Harry Potter, Death
and the Cultural Imagination.
8. Arthur, Harry and the Late Mother: From T.H. White to J.K. Rowling.
9. King's Cross: Harry Potter and the Transformative Power of Pain and
Suffering.
10. When Spares are Spared: Innocent Bystanders and Survivor's Guilt in
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
11. Death Culture, Literary References and Postmodern Sacred Elements in
Harry Potter as a Transmedia Franchise.
12. Death and How to Deal With it in the Harry Potter Series.
PART 3. Trauma, the Politics of Fear and Postmodern Transformations
13. Al-Qa'ida and the Horcruxes: Quests for Immortality by Violent
Extremist Organizations and Lord Voldemort.
14. Gender, Sexuality and the War on Terror in Harry Potter and Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.
15. Magic as Technological Utopia? Unpacking Issues of Interactivity and
Infrastructuring in the Potterverse.
16. Flirting with Posthumanist Technologies in Harry Potter:
Overconsumption of a Good Thing - Technology as Magic.
Index
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
PART 1. Wizarding (Bio)politics and Intersected Discourses
1. The Chosen One(s): Ethnic Election and Contemporary English National
Identity in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series.
2. Squibs, Disability and Having a Place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
3. A Magic Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Luna Lovegood and the Concept of
Postfeminism.
4. "Like an Old Tale": Art and Transformation in the Harry Potter Novels
and The Winter's Tale.
PART 2. Death Culture, Trauma and Anxiety
5. Death Sells: Relatable Death in the Harry Potter Novels.
6. The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and Western Anxiety about Death.
7. "A Story About How Humans Are Frightened of Death": Harry Potter, Death
and the Cultural Imagination.
8. Arthur, Harry and the Late Mother: From T.H. White to J.K. Rowling.
9. King's Cross: Harry Potter and the Transformative Power of Pain and
Suffering.
10. When Spares are Spared: Innocent Bystanders and Survivor's Guilt in
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
11. Death Culture, Literary References and Postmodern Sacred Elements in
Harry Potter as a Transmedia Franchise.
12. Death and How to Deal With it in the Harry Potter Series.
PART 3. Trauma, the Politics of Fear and Postmodern Transformations
13. Al-Qa'ida and the Horcruxes: Quests for Immortality by Violent
Extremist Organizations and Lord Voldemort.
14. Gender, Sexuality and the War on Terror in Harry Potter and Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.
15. Magic as Technological Utopia? Unpacking Issues of Interactivity and
Infrastructuring in the Potterverse.
16. Flirting with Posthumanist Technologies in Harry Potter:
Overconsumption of a Good Thing - Technology as Magic.
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
PART 1. Wizarding (Bio)politics and Intersected Discourses
1. The Chosen One(s): Ethnic Election and Contemporary English National
Identity in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series.
2. Squibs, Disability and Having a Place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
3. A Magic Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Luna Lovegood and the Concept of
Postfeminism.
4. "Like an Old Tale": Art and Transformation in the Harry Potter Novels
and The Winter's Tale.
PART 2. Death Culture, Trauma and Anxiety
5. Death Sells: Relatable Death in the Harry Potter Novels.
6. The Last Enemy: Harry Potter and Western Anxiety about Death.
7. "A Story About How Humans Are Frightened of Death": Harry Potter, Death
and the Cultural Imagination.
8. Arthur, Harry and the Late Mother: From T.H. White to J.K. Rowling.
9. King's Cross: Harry Potter and the Transformative Power of Pain and
Suffering.
10. When Spares are Spared: Innocent Bystanders and Survivor's Guilt in
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
11. Death Culture, Literary References and Postmodern Sacred Elements in
Harry Potter as a Transmedia Franchise.
12. Death and How to Deal With it in the Harry Potter Series.
PART 3. Trauma, the Politics of Fear and Postmodern Transformations
13. Al-Qa'ida and the Horcruxes: Quests for Immortality by Violent
Extremist Organizations and Lord Voldemort.
14. Gender, Sexuality and the War on Terror in Harry Potter and Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them.
15. Magic as Technological Utopia? Unpacking Issues of Interactivity and
Infrastructuring in the Potterverse.
16. Flirting with Posthumanist Technologies in Harry Potter:
Overconsumption of a Good Thing - Technology as Magic.
Index