{"id":25455,"date":"2012-09-18T01:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25455"},"modified":"2012-09-18T01:31:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:31:37","slug":"miscegenation-in-the-marvelous-race-and-hybridity-in-the-fantasy-novels-of-neil-gaiman-and-china-mieville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25455","title":{"rendered":"Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Mi\u00e9ville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/etd\/811\" target=\"_blank\">Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Mi\u00e9ville<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Western Ontario<br \/>\n2012<br \/>\n120 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nikolai Rodrigues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fantasy literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries uses the construction of\u00a0new races as a mirror through which to see the human race more clearly. Categorizations of\u00a0fantasy have tended to avoid discussions of race, in part because it is an uncomfortable gray\u00a0area since fantasy literature does not yet have a clear taxonomy. Nevertheless, race is often\u00a0an unavoidable component of fantasy literature. This thesis considers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._R._R._Tolkien\" target=\"_blank\">J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lord_of_the_Rings\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord of the Rings<\/a><\/em> as a taproot text for fantasy literature before moving on to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Gaiman\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Gods\" target=\"_blank\">American Gods<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China_Mi%C3%A9ville\" target=\"_blank\">China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perdido_Street_Station\" target=\"_blank\">Perdido Street Station<\/a><\/em>, both newer fantasy novels\u00a0which include interesting constructions of race and raise issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=686\" target=\"_blank\">hybridity<\/a>. This thesis moves towards an understanding of what purpose creating and utilizing\u00a0races serves, and how fantasy literature allows for the identification and potential resolution\u00a0of a number of human anxieties regarding race.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.lib.uwo.ca\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=2114&amp;context=etd\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Mi\u00e9ville University of Western Ontario 2012 120 pages Nikolai Rodrigues A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Fantasy literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries uses the construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,838,1196,8],"tags":[12058,12057,12056,12055],"class_list":["post-25455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-china-mieville","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-nikolai-rodrigues","tag-university-of-western-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}