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xander harris

Battis, Jes. "'This carpenter can drywall you into the next century': Xander Harris as Hero, Big Brother and Male-In-Progress." Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, McFarland, 2005. 44-66. 

 

Camron, Marc. "The Importance of Being the Zeppo: Xander, Gender Identity and Hybridity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, vol. 6, no. 3, Spring 2007.

 

Garret, Kyle. "Failure of the Everyman: The Lost Character That Was Xander Harris." Joss Whedon: The Complete Companion: The TV Series, the Movies, the Comic Books and More. Ed. PopMatters.com. [2nd] revised and updated edition,Titan Books, 2015, pp. 57-60. 

 

Herrmann, Andrew F. and Art Herbig. "'All too human': Xander Harris and the embodiment of the fully human." The Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 1-2,  2015, pp. 85-112.

 

Hindle, Michael. "'Jimmy Olsen jokes are pretty much gonna be lost on you': The Importance of Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Watcher Junior: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (8), September 2012. Available online.

 

___. "'I Laugh in the Face of Danger. Then I Hide Until It Goes Away': The Transgressive and Problematic Gender Roles of Buffy and Xander." All Slay vol. 3, 2004.

 

___. "Why Xander Matters: The Extraordinary Ordinary in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, Lexington Books, 2011, pp. 80-101.

 

McKeon, J. Michael. "'Love the One You're With': Developing Xander." The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality, edited by Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons-Featherston, Jim Ford and Carolyn Anne Taylor, JMcFarland, 2008, pp. 131-141.

although xander is arguably the least tactically extraordinary character in the main cast, it is this marginality which is the focus of much buffy studies literature.
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potential research genres:
hegemonic masculinity, class issues, deconstruction
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