Harry Potter and the Battle against Racism in EFL classrooms : A study of how racism is portrayed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - novel and movie, with a CRT perspective in pedagogical settings.

Description

This essay’s aim is to investigate how Rowling uses her novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to criticize racism in her magical world and ours. A secondary aim concerns how Rowling’s critical stance creates ways to resist racism for readers in the EFL classroom. Therefore, a comparison from a Critical Race Theory (CRT) perspective is made with focus on certain sequence comparisons between the novel and the film. Teachers need to highlight problems like racism in classrooms and fantasy novels and movies are exceptional tools to raise awareness and teach critical thinking to students.

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Tags

Racism

critical race theory

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

upper secondary school students

reader response

defamiliarization

EFL.

General Literature Studies

Litteraturvetenskap

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-65252
Date	January 2017
Creators	Berggren, Ebba
Publisher	Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR)
Source Sets	DiVA Archive at Upsalla University
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Format	application/pdf
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess