Urban fantasy — literatura Niewidocznego

• Authors: Ekman Stefan

Title variants

EN

Urban fantasy — A Literature of the Unseen

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the nature of urban fantasy by aggregating the claims, suggestions, and observations made by several different accounts of what urban fantasy is. These accounts comprise six scholarly sources and four sources written by people who are producers and purveyors of urban fantasy. An eleventh “account” is made up of the impressions conveyed by a vast number of book covers identified through Google Image Search. These eleven accounts are analysed with regard to their views on worlds and settings, cities and urbanity, central characters, and the sources of fantastic elements. Finally, the article presents how three major threads in the accounts reveal that urban fantasy has a central, thematic concern with the Unseen. This Unseen is largely related to a social Other that portrays unpleasant aspects of urban life, such as criminality, homelessness, addiction, prostitution, and physical and sexual abuse.

Keywords

EN

urban fantasy; suburban fantasy; the unseen; dark fantasy; paranormal romance

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Creatio Fantastica
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 1(58)
• Pages: 7-27

Contributors

author

Ekman Stefan

• University of Gothenburg

translator

Wąsowicz Magdalena

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.1419517