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Title Race and popular fantasy literature : habits of whiteness / Helen Young.
Author Young, Helen Victoria, author.
Publisher New York : Routledge, 2016.

Status Loan Type Location Shelf-mark
 In Library  1 week  Library Level 9  English E830.F2 YOU  
 In Library  24 hour  Level 3 High Demand  English E830.F2 YOU  
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Description [xiii], 224 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781138850231 hardback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-216) and index.
Contents Introduction: Re-thinking genre, thinking about race -- Founding fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard -- Forming habits: derivation, imitation, and adaptation -- The real middle ages: gritty fantasy -- Orcs and otherness: monsters on page and screen -- Popular culture postcolonialism -- Relocating roots: urban fantasy -- Breaking habits and digital communication.
Series Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 51.
Library Class English E830.F2
Subject Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction -- History and criticism.
Whites in literature.
Race in literature.
Popular culture and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Popular culture and literature -- United States -- History.

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