Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth

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Beschreibung

Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien¿s works for conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology is established on the basis of different races with different characteristics, and then poses the key question ¿Was Tolkien racist?¿ Robert Stuart engages the discourse and research associated with the ways in which racism and anti-racism relate Tolkien to his fascist and imperialist contemporaries and to twenty-first-century neo-Nazis and White Supremacists¿including White Supremacy, genocide, blood-and-soil philology, anti-Semitism, and aristocratic racism. Addressing a major gap in the field of Tolkien studies,Stuart focuses on race, racisms and the Tolkien legendarium.

Über den Autor

Robert Stuart is Associate Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia, Australia. His research output has focused on the history of French Marxism, but is now concentrated on the ideological dimension of contemporary genre fantasy literature.

Zusammenfassung

Incorporates scholarship from Critical Race studies, cultural studies, and intellectual history

Analyzes reception, appropriation, and influence of Tolkien's work

Thoroughly addresses key debates relating to Tolkien and race

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Reflections on Writing about Tolkien and Race.- Chapter 2: Tolkien, Race, and the Critics: Debating Racism in Middle-earth.- Chapter 3: Manichean Racism? Black and White and Blacks and Whites.- Chapter 4: Race War in Middle-earth: The Orcs, Genocide, and Ethnic Cleansing.- Chapter 5: Blood and Soil: Language, Myth, and their Racial Roots.- Chapter 6: Tolkien and Anti-Semitism: The Jewish Question and the Question of the Dwarves.- Chapter 7. Aristocratic Racism: Gobineau in Gondor.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	viii 357 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030974770
ISBN-10:	3030974774
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Stuart, Robert
Auflage:	1st edition 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Robert Stuart
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.04.2023
Gewicht:	0,476 kg