4 The Curious Case of Bonnie Bennett: The Vampire Diaries and the Monstrous Contradiction of the Dark Fantastic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination Gap 1
4. 1 Toward a Theory of the Dark Fantastic 15
5. 2 Lamentations of a Mockingjay: The Hunger Games’ Rue and Racial Innocence in the Dark Fantastic 35
6. 3 A Queen out of Place: Dark Fantastic Dreaming and the Spacetime Politics of Gwen in BBC’s Merlin 65
7. 4 The Curious Case of Bonnie Bennett: The Vampire Diaries and the Monstrous Contradiction of the Dark Fantastic 107
8. 5 Hermione Is Black: A Postscript to Harry Potter and the Crisis of Infinite Dark Fantastic Worlds 143
9. Acknowledgments 171
10. Notes 177
11. Bibliography 199
12. Index 213
13. About the Author 225