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The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz

The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series By Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz

The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series by Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz


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This book offers a biopolitical analysis of J. K. Rowling's globally-known Harry Potter series, including Jack Thorne and John Tiffany's stage production of Rowling's story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016).

The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series Summary

The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series by Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz

This book offers a biopolitical analysis of J. K. Rowling's globally-known Harry Potter series, including Jack Thorne and John Tiffany's stage production of Rowling's story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016). It indicates that modern children's fantasy school stories both perpetuate power inequalities as an effective dispositif of bioengineering, and simultaneously provide a political dissident perspective to power relations through an impossible fantasy world parallel to the real one. It applies Michel Foucault's biopolitical analytics, referring to his key works to reveal that race and class are used interactively as an agent for the exercise of biopower, in addition to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's rereading of Foucauldian biopolitics and biopower, introducing the concepts of multitude, the common, and the Empire to decipher the relationship between power and resistance besides the types and results of resistance in relation to biopolitics and biopower. As such, the book will appeal to undergraduates, academics, and all readers interested in modern fantasy works and school stories as well as critical theories, including those of Foucault and Hardt and Negri, particularly biopolitical analytics.

About Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz

Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz is currently teaching at Firat University, Turkey. She holds a BA from the Department of English Language and Literature of Hacettepe University, an MA from Firat University, and a PhD from Atilim University, all in Turkey. Her dissertation, which was about the representation of colonial ideology in nineteenth-century British children's adventure novels, was published as a book entitled British Children's Adventure Novels in the Web of Colonialism (2018). Her areas of interest are Victorian and children's literature and postcolonial and gender studies, on which she has delivered conference papers and published several journal articles.

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GOR013445266
9781527557550
1527557553
The Exercise of Biopower through Race and Class in the Harry Potter Series by Nilay Erdem Ayyildiz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
20200828
175
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