NP Tolkien Picks Up A Few More Bits Of Cultural Baggage

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: NP Tolkien Picks Up A Few More Bits Of Cultural Baggage
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> "Racism" refers to the way humans perceive and treat other humans.
>

This mustn't necessarily be the case in SF & Fantasy literature where
inter-species "racism" as a topic is imaginable, take for example "Enemy
Mine" where each side regards the other as culturally inferior.

"Enemy Mine translates (...) themes of xenophobia and cross-cultural
misinterpretation to the outer reaches of the universe with effective
results.(...)  Enemy Mine is a rare and unique example of science fiction
being used as a means to ponder humans' relations to each other and the
universe (...).
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll

Otto


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