Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Zombies, Vampires and Mutants, Oh My!
- 1. The Walking Dead as Biopolitical Nightmare
- 2. Feminist Post-Structuralism, Jessica Jones and Rape Culture
- 3. Normalizing and Bio-Powers in the World of Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood
- 4. The X-Men and Racialization as Bio-Political Normalization
- 5. Difference as Intersectional in the Harry Potter Universe
- 6. Sense8, Nationhood and Global Power Relations
- Conclusion: Telling Stories, Transforming Worlds
- Chapter Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
