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Black Witches and Queer Ghosts
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Teen Supernatural Serials
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of the Other in the media. This collection explores depictions of characters of color and/or LGBTQ characters in teen supernatural serials who were/are marginalized and examines the possible issues that these depictions can raise on a social level and, possibly, a developmental level for audience members who belong to these communities. The essays included in this collection thoroughly examine these characters and their narratives while providing nuanced examinations of how the media chooses to represent teens of color and LGBTQIA+ teens.
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Camille S. Alexander examines the intersection of traditional Hindu culture and contemporary Trinbagonian (creolized) culture and its influence on Indo-Caribbean female characters in the novels of Lakshmi Persaud, using four traditional Indian archetypes. In traditional Indian cultural, there are four archetypes that represent feminine ideals: the beti (daughter), dulahin (bride), patni (wife), and maan (mother). In her novels, Indo-Trinidadian author Lakshmi Persaud addresses these archetypal roles, noting that, while many of them overlap in traditional Indian communities, they have also undergone a transformation in the diaspora. In this book, Alexander identifies examples of these archetypes in Persaud’s novels and analyzes how these characters demonstrate the pull of traditional Indian Hindu cultural codes and exemplify the divide between tradition and modernity.