Download or read book Re-reading Harry Potter written by Suman Gupta and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part provides a survey of responses (both of general readers and critics) to the Harry Potter books. Some of the methodological decisions underlying this study itself are also explained here. The second part examines the presentation of certain themes, including gender, race and desire, in the Harry Potter books, with a view to understanding how these may impinge on social and political concerns of our world.