The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Author:Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT000000 Literary Criticism / General, American, Literary Criticism, Children's & Young Adult Literature, African American
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2019-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

The power and uncertainty of these [vampire] stories—no one knew exactly what Europeans did with African blood, but people were convinced that they took it—makes them an especially rich historical source, I think. They report the aggressive carelessness of colonial extractions and ascribe potent and intimate meanings to them . . . . . . The inaccuracies in these stories make them exceptionally reliable historical sources as well: they offer historians a way to see the world the way the storytellers did, as a world of vulnerability and unreasonable relationships. These stories of bloodsucking firemen or game rangers, pits and injections, allow historians a vision of colonial worlds replete with all the messy categories and meandering epistemologies many Africans used to describe the extractions and invasions with which they lived.12

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