Gone but not forgotten: the missing mothers of the wizarding world / Kate Fulton and Alicia L. Skipper -- "Beyond the veil": the narrative functions of death / Samantha J. Vertosick -- "I don't think you're a waste of space": activity, redemption and the social construction of fatness / Tolonda Henderson -- Of the Patil Twins Soma Das time travel and the cursed child / Elizabeth Morrow Clark -- Frisky, risky firewhisky: the rhetorical function of alcohol / Lauren Rose Camacci -- Pure-bloods, half-bloods, and mudbloods / Camilla Schroeder -- "You have your mother's eyes": inheritance and social class / Alison Baker -- The first gift: owls as paragons of the non-human / Keri Stevenson -- Dangerous depictions of adoption in Rowling's wizarding world narratives / Tara Moore -- Harry Potter and the paradoxes of fidelity / Borojevi Jelena -- What is a hero?: an analysis of legacy symbolism / Marley Stuever-Williford.
Summary:
"Many scholars recognize the importance of Harry Potter as a vehicle for discussions about society. This interdisciplinary collection of new essays from one of the world's leading Harry Potter scholars brings to the forefront a critique of modern Western society, using Harry's world as a mirror to our own"--Provided by publisher.
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