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BFFs examines female friendship as a site of radical intimacy, as
told through the cultural touchstones around us. From Elena
Ferrante to Booksmart, Little Women to Insecure, and beyond, the
book considers how female friendships can offer a more expansive
and emancipatory understanding of female intimacy.
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected
maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally
been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just
illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus
of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between
humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his
legendarium. Undertaking a diegetic literary analysis of the maps
as examples of Middle-earth’s own cultural output, Behrooz
reveals a sub-created tradition of cartography that articulates
specific power dynamics between mapmaker, map reader, and what is
being mapped, as well as the human/nonhuman binary that represents
human’s control over the natural world. Mapping Middle-earth
surveys how Tolkien frames cartography as an inherently political
act that embodies a desire for control of that which it maps. In
turn, it analyses harmful contemporary engagements with land that
intersect with, but also move beyond, cartography such as
environmental damage; human-induced geological change; and the
natural and bodily costs of political violence and imperialism.
Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial frameworks, and
such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway and Edward Said,
this book explores Tolkien’s employment of particular generic
tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the interplay between
image and text to highlight, and at times correct, his contemporary
socio-political epoch and its destructive relationship with the
wider world.
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien’s most critically neglected
maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally
been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just
illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien’s corpus
of maps are crucial to understanding the broader narratives between
humans and their political and environmental landscapes within his
legendarium. Analysing the maps as examples of Middle-earth’s own
cultural output, Behrooz reveals a sub-created tradition of
cartography that articulates specific power dynamics between
mapmaker, map reader, and what is being mapped, as well as the
human/nonhuman binary that represents human’s control over the
natural world. Not including the maps but providing clear links to
them, Mapping Middle-earth surveys how Tolkien frames cartography
as an inherently political act that embodies a desire for control
of that which it maps. In turn, it explores harmful contemporary
engagements with land that intersect with, but also move beyond,
cartography such as environmental damage; human-induced geological
change; and the natural and bodily costs of political violence and
imperialism. Using historical, eco-critical, and postcolonial
frameworks, and such theorists as Michel Foucault, Donna Haraway
and Edward Said, this book explores Tolkien’s employment of
particular generic tropes including medievalism, fantasy, and the
interplay between image and text to highlight, and at times
correct, his contemporary socio-political epoch and its destructive
relationship with the wider world.
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