Demons and Demos: Voldemort, Democracy and Celebrity Culture

  • Saradindu Bhattacharya University of Hyderabad

Abstract

This article tackles celebrity culture as embodied in the person of one, who, ironically, must-not-be-named: Voldemort. Moving deep into the layers of celebrity cultures in the academy, the world, and the world of the novels, Bhattacharya takes an intriguing, timely, and surprising position: it is less an inherently evil nature of the individual and more the inherently social — perhaps panoptic — nature of the world into which Voldemort enters that result in the wizard’s criminal notoriety.

Author Biography

Saradindu Bhattacharya, University of Hyderabad
Savid Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2012)
Section
Alice's Academy
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