Helen Young Livres

The book explores the intricate relationship between race and popular Fantasy in 21st-century Western culture, highlighting how discourses of race manifest in creative works and their surrounding communities. By employing an interdisciplinary approach that includes Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, it delves into the complexities of race, racism, and white privilege, while examining the impact of major texts, franchises, and fan interactions on representation. This work offers critical insights into the cultural anxieties of a society that claims to be post-race.

By examining the interplay of race and representation in 21st-century Western popular culture, this book delves into how discourses of race manifest within the realm of Fantasy. It highlights the tensions surrounding race, racism, and white privilege through an interdisciplinary lens, incorporating insights from Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies. The analysis covers significant texts and the influence of franchises, industry practices, and fan interactions, providing a critical perspective on the cultural anxieties of a society claiming to be post-race.

Organised around the theme of mobility, this Element seeks to deconstruct the Eurocentric orientations of western popular medievalisms which typically position Europe as either the whole world or the centre of it, by making them visible and offering alternative perspectives.

Bogota, 1947. British architect Luke Vosey has left his past behind to undertake a commission for Anglo-Colombian Oil in South America. For Luke, this new venture seems to offer the chance to start again. But grieving and ashamed of his role in the war, he cannot run from the past or from his nightmares. Luke finds distraction with the whores of Las Cruces and in the friendship of a young newspaper journalist - and finally with Felisa, a young draughtswoman with a passion for politics. Through her, Luke comes to understand the true broken mood of the people of Colombia, with the country teetering on the brink of civil war. Then a bloody assassination on the streets of the capital sees everything he's worked for destroyed. As the mob tears the city to shreds, and Luke's past is unveiled, can he survive to save others? Publisher: Unbound ISBN: 9781789650495 Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm