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...
Main Author: | Fahlén, Alexander |
---|---|
Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur
2016
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-39844 |
Similar Items
-
Othering and Diversity in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy : A Positive Presentation of Difference
by: Brink, Emma
Published: (2017) -
Lord of the Rings, Lord of Nature : A postcolonial-ecocritical study of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and its implications in the EFL classroom
by: Lobo Jansson, Stefan
Published: (2018) -
Power and corruption : Evil in Tolkien´s Eä
by: Modin, Anna
Published: (2008) -
Filmernas kristna Midgård : En undersökning kring Sagan om ringen-filmernas kristna motiv
by: Enberg, Peter
Published: (2011) -
"I will go now to my pyre" : Isaks bindande läst genom J.R.R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
by: Selvén, Sebastian
Published: (2013)