Altre Modernità (Nov 2017)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Rewriting Stereotypes

  • Ilaria Villa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/9266
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 18
pp. 133 – 144

Abstract

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Harry Potter is a very successful series of novels, mainly addressed to children and adolescents. The story is set in a magical world, parallel to our own; it revolves around the lives of the young wizard Harry Potter and his friends, each novel narrating a year of their lives as they go to school, study the magic arts, and fight against the evil wizard Voldemort (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 1997; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007).