“The affordances of the first person perspective for audience engagement also create a significant challenge in that the Dark Other is always focalized through a White protagonist's eyes.” WritingFirst Person NarrativeRacialized Lens Book:The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Source: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
“The trouble with colorblind ideologies in text and culture is that by not noticing race, writers and other creatives do the work of encoding it as taboo. While silence and evasion around race in dystopian science fiction is 'understood to be a graceful, even generous, liberal gesture', implying the inevitability of a postracial future, this silence also has the effect of confusing readers.” WritingSpeculative FictionColorblindPostracial Book:The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games Source: The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games