Cultural Politics in Harry Potter: Life, Death and the Politics of Fear

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.

Author: Rubén Jarazo-Álvarez
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/06/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780367206635

About the Author

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.