Kermit O
WRITER • EDUCATOR • DREAMER — Light brown. Unapologetically Black. Punches up. Writing a dreampunk novel about kids, trauma, and parallel worlds.

Exclusion and Fetishism

November 14, 2010 • Books, Close Reading, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity

For all “darkness” figures into the thinking of fantasy authors, it is conspicuously absent from the features of the characters. Except the “dark lords” and such, who play off of the fact that darkness equates to evil in the white literary imagination. Tolkien took it a step further, equating not only darkness with evil in the abstract, but designing his evil characters – goblins, trolls, and the like – with Africanesque features…

Broken Kingdoms, NK Jemisin, SFF

A dream world shaped by children's desires.
A sanctuary…


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