Racial Issues in Middle-Earth : A Postcolonial Perspective on J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings

This essay focuses on J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, how the different races in the text are portrayed and how they interact with each other. The essay uses postcolonial theories, mainly “Orientalism” and “Otherness”, to prove traces of racism in the text. It focuses on the text and what can...

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Main Author: Fahlén, Alexander
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur 2016
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-39844