Introduction: the dark fantastic : race and the imagination gap -- Toward a theory of the dark fantastic -- Lamentations of a Mockingjay : the hunger games' Rue and racial innocence in the dark fantastic -- A queen out of place : dark fantastic dreaming and the spacetime politics of gwen in BBC's Merlin -- The curious case of Bonnie Bennett : the vampire diaries and the monstrous contradiction of the dark fantastic -- Hermione is black : a postscript on Harry Potter and the crisis of infinite dark fantastic worlds -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
