Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is a book by Robert Stuart on the theme of racism in J.R.R. Tolkien's work. It was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022.
Contents
- Introduction: Reflections on Writing About Tolkien and Race
- — Bibliography
- Tolkien, Race, and the Critics: Debating Racism in Middle-earth
- — ‘The way in which the Nazis saw the world’? The Racialisation of Middle-earth
- — ‘A foul people’: From Racialism to Racism?
- — ‘The State of the Soul’: Race and Spirituality in Middle-earth
- — ‘I’d go back to trees’: Tolkien, Anti-Modernity, and Modern Racism
- — ‘Always historicise!’: Tolkien and Race in Context
- — Bibliography
- Manichean Racism? Black and White and Blacks and Whites
- — ‘An unwitting defence of racial separatism’: Apartheid in Middle-earth?
- — ‘Black and hideous’: Tolkien and White Racism
- — ‘The Colour of Salvation’: Tolkien and Spiritual Colouration
- — Bibliography
- Race War in Middle-earth: The Orcs, Genocide, and Ethnic Cleansing
- — ‘The only good Orc is a dead Orc’: Race War in Middle-earth
- — ‘Other Makings’: Orcs as Animals, Automatons, or Twisted Elves
- — ‘Orcs aren’t monsters. We are.’ The Orcs and the Critics
- — ‘The Inner War of Allegory’: Orcs and the War for the Soul
- — Bibliography
- Blood and Soil: Language, Myth, and Their Racial Roots
- — ‘His country of the heart’: Home and Heimat
- — ‘Sacred Geography’ and ‘Rooted Sustenance’: Grounding the Race
- — ‘Things of racial and linguistic significance’: A Racial Philology?
- — ‘Native Language’ and ‘Cradle-Tongue’: Racial Memory in Tolkien’s Thought
- — ‘Voices so fair to hear’: Phonaesthetics and Race
- — Bibliography
- Tolkien and Anti-Semitism: The Jewish Question and the Question of the Dwarves
- — ‘That Gifted People’: Debating Tolkien, Racism, and the Jews
- — ‘Dwarves like Jews’: Philo-Semitism or Anti-Semitism?
- — ‘The War against the West’: Historicising Tolkien’s Texts
- — Bibliography
- Aristocratic Racism: Gobineau in Gondor
- — ‘A man of the Middle Ages’: Gobineau’s Aristocratic Racism
- — ‘Tipping your hat to the Squire’: Tolkien and Racial Aristocracy
- — ‘The Race of the Kings’: Númenóreans and the Dúnedain
- — ‘As Tall as Lords’: Stature and Status
- — Lords of ‘the lesser kindreds’: High Elves, Fallohides, and Aristocratic Animals
- — Bibliography
- Conclusion
- — Bibliography
- Index
Referencias
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