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Harry Potter in Russia

The Politics of Enchantment under Putin
Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-37916-9 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing the spotlight with an 11-year-old British wizard. In Harry Potter in Russia, Eliot Borenstein examines the Russian Pottermania explosion in 2000 and how Harry Potter has become politicized in ways both familiar and unfamiliar to J.K. Rowling’s Western fans. Borenstein reflects on how the franchise led to soul-searching about the fate of children’s literature, the legitimacy and even dangers of fantasy genres, and debates about intellectual property and internet piracy.

The book explores the ways in which Potter sparked moral panics about the occult, anxiety over the power of the Russian Orthodox Church, and even fears that the titular icon and his ilk were a Trojan Horse in a Western plot to corrupt Russian morals and destroy the country. Harry Potter in Russia also delves into the significance of fan fiction, parodies, cheap-knock offs, and repeated comparisons between the Boy Who Lived and the Man Who Ruled.

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University, USA. His first book, Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000. In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008. His is also the author of Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism (2009 - winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize), Pussy Riot (2020, Bloomsbury Academic) and Meanwhile, in Russia... (2022, Bloomsbury Academic). Borenstein was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.

Preface: Confessions of an ex-Pirate
1. Harry Potter and the Arrival of a Franchise
2. Harry Potter and the Fantasy Genre Controversy
3. Harry Potter and the Cheap Knockoffs
4. Harry Potter and the Rise of Fandom
5. Harry Potter and the Russian Culture Wars, Part One
6. Harry Potter and the Russian Culture Wars, Part Two
7. Harry Potter and Vladimir Putin
8. Harry Potter and the War in Ukraine
Conclusion: The Cursed Child
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.11.2024
Zusatzinfo 15 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-37916-6 / 1350379166
ISBN-13 978-1-350-37916-9 / 9781350379169
Zustand Neuware
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