2014/01/01 by Helen Young · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Themes in Literature Analysis #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Australian History and Society #Trilogy #Fantasy #Colonialism #Ideology #Sociology #History #Aesthetics #Literature #Gender studies #Media studies #Art #Law #Political science #Politics
paper · doi:10.3828/extr.2014.4
published in Extrapolation 55(1), 33-50 (Liverpool University Press)
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/01/09
After a long history of failing to critically engage, in the past decade or so the popular fantasy genre has begun to taken on the troubling issues of colonialism and its legacies. This article explores the critique of colonialism and related racialised discourses in one example: Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy. It argues that Hobb subverts tropes and structures of the fantasy genre to critically comment on the ideologies and practices of colonisation, placing her critique within Western popular culture.