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Fantasy is often condemned as escapist, unsophisticated and superficial. This collection of new essays puts such easy dismissals to the test by examining the ways in which Fantasy narratives present diverse, politically relevant discourses--gender, race, religion or consumerism--and thereby serve as indicators of their real-world contexts.
Through their depiction of other worlds allegedly disconnected from our own, these texts are able to actualize political attitudes. Instead of categorizing Fantasy either as conservative or progressive, the essays suggest that its generic peculiarity allows the emergence of productive forms of oscillation between these extremes. Covered are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire sequence, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, the vampire TV series True Blood, and the dystopian computer game Fallout 3.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Politics of Fantasy • Gerold Sedlmayr and
Nicole Waller
I. Identity
"It's all a big show": Constructing Identity in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games Trilogy • Stefanie Fricke
Gender and Racial Roles in Computer Role-Playing Games • Andreas Blüml
II. The Politics of Fantasy
Conservative and Countercultural Elements in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas • Beatrix Hesse
Subversive or Conservative? Vampires and Ideology in the Twilight Series and True Blood • Christian Knirsch
From Hyper-Male Aardvarks to the Female Void: Gender Politics in Cerebus • Sebastian Domsch
Fantasy as Politics: George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire • Rainer Emig
The Politics of Post-Apocalypse: Interactivity, Narrative Framing and Ethics in Fallout 3 • Matthias Kemmer
The Atheist Believer: Harry Potter and the Politics of Religion • Bärbel Höttges
Political Rhetoric as a Structural and Ideological Instrument in Star Wars and Harry Potter • Christina Flotmann
Haven't I Been Here Before? China Miéville's Uncanny Cities • Dirk Vanderbeke
III. The Fantasy of Politics
Fantastic Body Politics in Joe Abercrombie's The First Law Trilogy • Gerold Sedlmayr
The Fantasy of Politics: The Past and the Future of Object-Related Fantasy • Sladja Blažan
Tolkien's Baits: Agonism, Essentialism and the Visible in The Lord of the Rings • Dirk Wiemann
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