Systemic oppression in children's portal-quest fantasy literature

This thesis investigates the representation of systemic oppression in Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Employing Foucauldian poststructuralism and critical discourse analysis, this research identifies how the social systems of the fantasy text...

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Main Author: Owen, Christopher
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52890