Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. **A MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE OF 2023 from The Independent, Elle, The Millions, Salon, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Huffington Post, Oprah Daily, The Week, Book Riot, Lit-Reactor, Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus AND MANY MORE** Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale, Squid Game and Watchmen At the point where the fictional metaphor matters more than the current reality, something’s gone terribly wrong.Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
Because fictional tyrannical dystopias are primarily envisioned as affecting white people, it can be harder to see negative policies that oppress others.
Trump’s policies have traction precisely because they’re seen as primarily affecting those people, over there. But the current presidency isn’t just predicated on sexism, it’s built around demonization of Mexicans, Muslims, black people, and the generalized specter of non-white immigrants. Many people have argued that The Handmaid’s Tale is particularly timely now. From Orwell to The Hunger Games to Harry Potter and back to War of the Worlds, we constantly imagine tyranny as something that is inflicted on white people. This creates a situation where even anti-racist stories are unable to represent or sympathize with the suffering or struggles of non-white people. If creators are concerned about the horror of violence against people of color, why not center stories on them? The answer is that (generally white) creators believe that the imagined (mostly white) audience will be better able to empathize with a white protagonist.
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