{"product_id":"dispelling-fantasies-joy-sanchez-taylor-9780814259498","title":"Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDispelling Fantasies, \u003c\/i\u003e Joy Sanchez-Taylor examines how authors of color, such as R. F. Kuang, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Tomi Adeyemi, Tasha Suri, Aiden Thomas, Nghi Vo, and Marlon James, among others, offer critical counterpoints to the history of white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy. The traditional fantasy that these authors are writing against reinforces Christian virtues and colonial, white supremacist structures; Sanchez-Taylor argues that its racial tropes are tied to a history of colonization and Christian missionary practices, with popular fantasy narratives often depicting Indigenous groups as primitive, deviant peoples in need of salvation. Such representations are based on a Western binary of rational versus magical and are influenced by tenets of Christianity, ultimately contributing to depictions of \"the dark fantastic\" or fantasy worlds where dark and othered characters are implicitly portrayed as evil and irredeemable. Organized around four Christian ideals that appear frequently in Western fantasy texts--virtue, envy, patriarchy, and salvation--\u003ci\u003eDispelling Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how non-Eurocentric fantasy worlds offer alternative versions of morality, race, gender, and sexuality and make space for authors to move away from hierarchical, binary systems of good and evil. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Sanchez-Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259499\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Joy Sanchez-Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46974511579391,"sku":"9780814259498","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9f681e9-ec67-43d7-93c4-7a118b25d3f3.jpg?v=1750875248","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dispelling-fantasies-joy-sanchez-taylor-9780814259498","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}