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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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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.
Klappentext
Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear is the first book-length analysis of topics, such as death, fear and biopolitics in J.K. Rowling's work from controversial and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection brings together recent theoretical and applied cultural studies and focuses on three key areas of inquiry: (1) wizarding biopolitics and intersected discourses; (2) anxiety, death, resilience and trauma; and (3) the politics of fear and postmodern transformations. As such, this book:
examines the strategies and mechanisms through which cultural and political processes are managed, as well as reminding us how fiction and reality intersect at junctions, such as terrorism, homonationalism, materialism, capitalism, posthumanism and technology. Exploring precisely what is cultural about wizarding politics, and what is political about culture, this book is key reading for students of contemporary literature, media and culture, as well as anyone with an interest in the fictional universe and wizarding world of Harry Potter.
Inhalt
*List of Contributors
Preface*
Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez
*Acknowledgements
Note on the Text*
PART 1. Wizarding (Bio)politics and Intersected Discourses
"Like an Old Tale": Art and Transformation in the Harry Potter Novels and The Winter's Tale. *Mary Villeponteaux
PART 2. Death Culture, Trauma and Anxiety
Death and How to Deal With it in the Harry Potter Series. Pilar Alderete-Diez PART 3. Trauma, the Politics of Fear and Postmodern Transformations