NP? "the formerly colonised coming back to haunt us"

[Dave Monroe]

Hey, ev'rybody ...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 
> The following is no joke but actual Amazon.de-text:
> 
> Male Fantasies: Women Floods Bodies History (Theory
> & History of Literature)
> 
> von Klaus Theweleit, Chris Turner (Übersetzer)

Hell of a book, by the way, no joke indeed ...

> Demonizing Tolkien wasn't my point, therefor I wrote
> that I still love LOTR (and "The Hobbit" too, I'm
> eagerly waiting for my daughter to grow a little
> bit older to read it with her), despite the fact
> that I now consider it as partly racist and sexist

Nor mine, either.  And this comes nowhere near the
problem of, say, the anti-semitism(s) of T.S. Eliot,
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Paul De Man, Edgar Degas ...
for example.  But we really shouldn't leave these
things unremarked, even as, esp. as, we go on and
read, view, respect, love, whatever, their works
nonetheless.  And note that the "multicultural" make-
up of that Fellowship of the Ring doesn't exactly
mitigate the racial problematics of that light/dark,
white/black trope which Tolkien does indeed, and as
per custom (folkloric, colonial), employ.  Still a
buncha white guys, height, pointy ears (notice that
Peter Jackson's elves are essentially Vulcans) and
hairy feet aside ...

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