Worldbuilder's Book Club 2024 - hosted by quartzen

Literary Criticism
Bonus prompt!! Choose a book of literary criticism or reviews about the genre, subgenre, or tropes you're interested in working with in one of your projects to get a sense of how that work fits in the world.
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

110 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide by Margaret Kerrison

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds: A Writer's Guide

Margaret Kerrison

264 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction self help informative slow-paced
The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

240 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction art race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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