Power and Marginalization in Popular Culture
The Oppressed in Six Television and Literature Media Franchises
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About the Book
In many pop culture texts, “monsters” can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens of Michel Foucault’s normalizing and bio-powers to zombies, vampires, magicians, genetic mutants and others, asking whether these stories of apparent liberation really are so. Exploring a single theme in depth across a series of pop culture texts, this book encourages a radical new understanding of liberation narratives and of political activism as a mechanism of social change.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Lisa A. King
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 172
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2020
pISBN: 978-1-4766-6867-3
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4016-7
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface 1
Introduction: Zombies, Vampires and Mutants, Oh My! 3
1. The Walking Dead as Biopolitical Nightmare 25
2. Feminist Post-Structuralism, Jessica Jones and Rape Culture 47
3. Normalizing and Bio-Powers in the World of Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood 65
4. The X-Men and Racialization as Bio-Political Normalization 85
5. Difference as Intersectional in the Harry Potter Universe 104
6. Sense8, Nationhood and Global Power Relations 122
Conclusion: Telling Stories, Transforming Worlds 140
Chapter Notes 149
Works Cited 159
Index 163
