| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; 51 |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 51.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figure; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Founding Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard; 2 Forming Habits: Derivation, Imitation, and Adaptation; 3 The Real Middle Ages: Gritty Fantasy; 4 Orcs and Otherness: Monsters on Page and Screen; 5 Popular Culture Postcolonialism; 6 Relocating Roots: Urban Fantasy; 7 Breaking Habits and Digital Communication; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 17, 2015) |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism
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White people in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Popular culture and literature -- Great Britain -- History
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Popular culture and literature -- United States -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fantasy fiction
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Fantasy fiction, American
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Popular culture and literature
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Race in literature
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White people in literature
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315724843 |
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1315724847 |
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9781317532170 |
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1317532171 |
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9781317532163 |
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1317532163 |
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9781317532156 |
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1317532155 |
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