Terry Pratchett's Narrative Worlds

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This book highlights the multi-dimensionality of the work of British fantasy writer andDiscworld creator Terry Pratchett. Taking into account content, political commentary, andliterary technique, it explores the impact of Pratchett’s work on fantasy writing and genreconventions. With chapters on gender, multiculturalism, secularism, education, and relativism, Section One focuses on different characters’ situatedness within Pratchett’s novels and whatthis may tell us about the direction of his social, religious and political criticism. Section Twodiscusses the aesthetic form that this criticism takes, and analyses the post- and meta-modernaspects of Pratchett’s writing, his use of humour, and genre adaptations and deconstructions.This is the ideal collection for any literary and cultural studies scholar, researcher or studentinterested in fantasy and popular culture in general, and in Terry Pratchett in particular.Marion Rana is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, where she isin charge of a project analysing the negotiation of deafness in children’s literature. She is oneof the publishers of interjuli, an international journal for research in children’s literature. Herrecent publications deal with disability poetry, the commodification of sexuality in dystopianfiction, as well as categories of simplicity and the use of Young Adult literature in the foreignlanguage classroom.