Dr. Ebony Thomas Keynote Video
JoLLE 2018 Winter Conference
"The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination in Youth Literature, Media, and Culture"
A sense of the infinite possibilities inherent in fairy tales, fantasy, science fiction, comics, and graphic novels draws children, teens, and adults from all backgrounds to speculative fiction—also known as the fantastic. However, when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, we often discover that the doors are barred. “The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination in Youth Literature, Media, and Culture” (forthcoming, New York University Press) argues that the presence of Black characters in speculative fiction creates a dilemma. The way that this dilemma is most often resolved is by enacting violence against the character, who then haunts the narrative. This is what readers of the fantastic expect, for it mirrors the spectacle of symbolic violence against dark-skinned people in our own world. Yet, through emancipated imaginations, endarkened and made whole, the literary landscape for our young people can indeed be made anew—and turned upside down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2NE773RNPw&feature=youtu.be
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