Overview
- 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
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
Authors: Robert Stuart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97475-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97474-9Published: 16 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97477-0Published: 17 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97475-6Published: 15 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 357
Topics: Fiction, Literature, general, Medieval Literature, Popular Culture , Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, History, general