Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2022
VIII, 357 pages
978-3-030-97475-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is still an extremely valuable contribution to Tolkien Studies, and it represents the most thorough treatment thus far of these matters. . Sturat's book provides important research for such acknowledgement and analysis, and is therefore a worthy addition to the Tolkien scholar's library." (Robert T. Tally, Mythlore, Vol. 41 (1), October, 2022)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VIII, 357 p.
File size
3,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-97475-6 (9783030974756)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-97475-6
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Robert Stuart
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
Book
04/2022
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Person
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.
Content
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.
