Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter

McEvoy-Levy, Siobhán

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Section: Popular Culture Peacebuilding and Audience Studiesmentioning

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“…Peace studies is currently engrossed in a burgeoning ‘cultural turn’ which seeks to explore the political work that popular culture does in variegated post-war contexts (Bräuchler, 2018; McEvoy-Levy, 2018; Press-Barnathan, 2017). For example, McEvoy-Levy (2018) focuses directly on popular culture and its relationship to peace and peacebuilding. As such, the author reads a number of popular culture texts – including the Hunger Games and the Harry Potter novels – with the aim to uncover ‘discourses of nonviolence, relational empathy, and “positive peace” (as entertainment) that coexist with discourses of “militainment” and other militarized aspects of daily life’ (McEvoy-Levy, 2018: 13).…”

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“…For example, McEvoy-Levy (2018) focuses directly on popular culture and its relationship to peace and peacebuilding. As such, the author reads a number of popular culture texts – including the Hunger Games and the Harry Potter novels – with the aim to uncover ‘discourses of nonviolence, relational empathy, and “positive peace” (as entertainment) that coexist with discourses of “militainment” and other militarized aspects of daily life’ (McEvoy-Levy, 2018: 13). Ultimately, the author is interested in exploring how ‘peacebuilding [is] rooted in popular culture’ (2018: 376).…”

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“…Brits and the occasional diasporic community’ (Gray, 2017: 82) commonly occupying centre-stage. Meanwhile in peace studies, scholars are beginning to unpack the relationship between popular culture and the post-war politics of peacebuilding (Bräuchler, 2018; McEvoy-Levy, 2018; Press-Barnathan, 2017). Underpinning this research programme is an assumption that popular culture may inspire a politics of peace in post-war settings.…”

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“…Underpinning this research programme is an assumption that popular culture may inspire a politics of peace in post-war settings. Yet, thus far the studies produced on the matter have been restricted to English-language sources, and they have moreover mostly been concerned with the discourses of popular culture, rather than with how they are received by audiences in post-war settings (McEvoy-Levy, 2018: 13). Overall, then, there appears to be a shared understanding in cultural studies and peace studies alike that we need to focus more on how audiences receive media texts (including their possible dislike) in non-Western contexts.…”

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Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

Lundqvist

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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The article explores the burgeoning Nepalese hip-hop scene – commonly known as nep-hop – as a discursive intervention in the post-war politics of Nepal. Its core argument is that nep-hop oftentimes demonstrates an ethos of peacebuilding through popular culture. Indeed, many songs explicitly criticize violence, war, and the political leaders who recently brought the nation to a civil war. Yet, this political critique appears to often fall on deaf ears, due to the fact that nep-hop is commonly decoded as a radically ‘alien’ and ‘vulgar’ genre by audiences in mainstream Nepalese society. Importantly, however, this should not be read as a rejection of the ideological content of nep-hop, but rather as a negative evaluation of the aesthetic form of the genre, which bars many Nepalese citizens from engaging with its political messages in a meaningful manner.

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Section: Popular Culture Peacebuilding and Audience Studiesmentioning

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A Rhetorical Reading of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

2023

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This paper discusses Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games (2008) in light of James Phelan’s rhetorical model. It explores Phelan’s theory of the reading of narrative as an activity that simultaneously engages the readers’ intellects, emotions, ideologies, and ethics. The paper examines several issues central to rhetorical poetics: reliable/unreliable narrators, narrative ethics, narrative judgments, and narrative progression. It demonstrates how the rhetorical theory of narrative emphasizes the recursive relationships between authorial agency, textual phenomena, and reader response while remaining open to insights from a range of critical approaches such as feminism, formalism, and cultural studies. I argue that the narrator in this novel is largely reliable with only a few cases of slight deviation from the norms of the implied author due to unavoidable lack of cognition or to occasional cases of misinterpretation. The novel contains a powerful communication system that blends fictional and actual audiences into a network of recursive relations based on a multilayered narrative ethics. The paper also shows how the rhetorical model can illuminate and assist in our interpretation of literary texts especially when we view the reading experience as a vital engagement between the reader and the author controlled by an implied author affected by each of them. Keywords: Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, James Phelan, Rhetorical Model Scholars.

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Reading War and Peace in Harry Potter

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Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

Nep-hop for peace? Political visions and divisions in the booming Nepalese hip-hop scene

A Rhetorical Reading of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

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