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In pointing readers to everyday experience and our place in history, the realism underpinning Rowling's fantasy encourages readers to expect resonances between the world of Harry Potter and their own world. However, Rowling's fictional history “History of Magic in North America,” first published on her web site Pottermore, and the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child highlight significant narrative concerns for new and returning readers: the limitations of Rowling's imagined world in terms of race. These two examples from 2016 demonstrate the degree to which elements of realism set the terms of readers' engagement with and critique of Rowling's representations of race. The narrative result of Rowling's realism then becomes a compromised fantasy, a failed performance of fantastic realism – indeed, for many readers, a failed object of art.
Title: Realism and Race
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In pointing readers to everyday experience and our place in history, the realism underpinning Rowling's fantasy encourages readers to expect resonances between the world of Harry Potter and their own world.
However, Rowling's fictional history “History of Magic in North America,” first published on her web site Pottermore, and the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child highlight significant narrative concerns for new and returning readers: the limitations of Rowling's imagined world in terms of race.
These two examples from 2016 demonstrate the degree to which elements of realism set the terms of readers' engagement with and critique of Rowling's representations of race.
The narrative result of Rowling's realism then becomes a compromised fantasy, a failed performance of fantastic realism – indeed, for many readers, a failed object of art.
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