Cultural Politics In Harry Potter

<P><EM>Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear</EM> 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: </P><UL><LI>provides a comprehensive overview of national and gender discourses, as well as the transiting bodies in-between, in relation to the Harry Potter books series and related multimedia franchise; </LI><LI>situates the transformative power of death within the fandom, transmedia and film depictions of the Potterverse and critically deconstructs the processes of subjectivation and legitimation of death and fear; </LI><LI>examines the strate

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