{"id":61904,"date":"2021-10-21T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61904"},"modified":"2021-10-21T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:20:04","slug":"immigration-passing-and-the-racial-other-in-neo-victorian-imperialist-fiction-the-case-of-carnival-row-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61904","title":{"rendered":"Immigration, Passing, and the Racial Other in Neo-Victorian Imperialist Fiction: The Case of Carnival Row (2019\u2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration, Passing, and the Racial Other in Neo-Victorian Imperialist Fiction: The Case of <\/strong><\/em>Carnival Row (2019\u2013<\/strong>)<\/a><\/p>\n

Adaptation<\/a>
\nPublished 2021-10-07
\nDOI: 10.1093\/adaptation\/apab018<\/a><\/p>\n

Dina Pedro<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. candidate
\nDepartment of English and German, School of Philology, Translation and Communication
\nUniversitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain<\/em><\/p>\n

In this article, I provide a close reading of Season 1 of the neo-Victorian<\/a> TV series Carnival Row<\/em><\/a> as both an ambivalent postcolonial<\/a> and neo-passing narrative. I first draw on previous criticism on postcolonial neo-Victorianism and turn-of-the-century American passing<\/a> novels in order to analyze Carnival Row\u2019s<\/em> contradictory revision of imperial London<\/a> through its re-imagining in a fictional city named The Burgue. I then explore the conflicting ways in which the series tackles (neo-)imperialism and colonialization, as it simultaneously criticizes and reproduces imperial ideologies and stereotypes of the racial Other. Finally, I argue that Carnival Row<\/em> seems to offer a new take on American passing novels by allowing Philo, the mixed-race male protagonist, to embrace his biracial nature without meeting a tragic fate at the end of Season 1. Nonetheless, by choosing a White actor (Orlando Bloom<\/a>) to play the role of the passer, the series culturally appropriates a form of Black oppression for the entertainment of a White audience. Thus, despite the series\u2019 well-intentioned attempts to criticize (neo-)imperial, racist, and xenophobic practices, it ultimately perpetuates\u2014rather than subverts\u2014those very same ideologies.<\/p>\n

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