@article{1446141,
      recid = {1446141},
      author = {Stuart, Robert,},
      title = {Tolkien, race, and racism in Middle-earth /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume)},
      abstract = {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 Tolkiens 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 Supremacistsincluding 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. 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446141},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97475-6},
}