Academic Ideas Dump

[fantasyecho]

I emailed a friend today about what I've got currently in the works, some of which you'd already have seen before, but just reposting:

Idea #1 was to have a look at Victorian literature and do a lit review of sorts on the kind of racialized depictions of the era, and then compare it to racialized depictions today in current steampunk lit (or

Comments

[februaryfour]

tracing the genealogies of specific racialized tropes most associated with major racial groups in how they're portrayed when framed in the White Gaze (for example, the Yellow Peril re: East Asians, how it's constructed now and how it came to this point)

I am incredibly intrigued by this and would LOVE to read it when it's done.