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This piece blew my mind about Tolkien’s real life racism toward his would-be colleague Stuart Hall
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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To put on reading list this new book by @klavezzo.bsky.social
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Agree! It’s too much like Twitter to my taste but can’t do the others anymore.
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This essay teaches really well!
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Lavezzo "rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship and fiction in light of his rejection at Oxford of Stuart Hall, who approached him regarding graduate work on William Langland" + argues "that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations"
'Whiteness, medievalism, immigration: rethinking Tolkien through Stuart Hall' - Kathy Lavezzo.
Rethinks Tolkien’s scholarship & fiction in light of his rejection of Stuart Hall. Argues that Tolkien’s white medievalism contains his most deeply felt racist formations link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057...
Love asymmetric cut!!
Treasured gift from @harrys.bsky.social
Happy holiday Jon!
Chicago and Harry
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. Gramsci
mom reached the embroidering gramsci phase
Sula is the culmination of the course precisely due to the reasons you outline. Your piece adumbrates Weheliye and others’ recent work on the human. A restorative holiday to you and yours. ❤️
Grateful for your presence in this world. Your piece on Sula and the human is central to my introduction to the major course.
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“It simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human… If they must die, let it be a crime.”
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A beautifully written and generously evocative review!
New issue of Genre is out, with review by me of @harrys.bsky.social's excellent book, read review, buy book, have a good weekend read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
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Boycott Amazon. I have. It can be done!
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📣 Action Alert:
Please sign our open letter demanding that NYU administration rescind the Persona Non Grata designations of our colleagues and students and drop charges against arrested colleagues, we urge you to do so now!
Please also circulate to your networks!
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On Dec 6 I resigned from the MLA Exec Council in dissent against its decision to block the vote on resolution 2025-1 & in solidarity w/ the proposers & members. Chris Newfield, w/ whom I served for 2 yrs, has kindly posted my resignation letter on his blog: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...
"It may be the 'right' decision based on a narrow construal of the EC’s fiduciary duty. But members are also right to ask: What does this say or, indeed, not say about the organization’s values and principles?"
From @rcolesworthy.bsky.social letter of resignation from the MLA Executive Council.
Panorama of Baldwin's Giovanni's Room
My office neighbor Pia invited her General Education Literature students to do creative final assignments. Behold a panorama of Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.
Yes, we'll be there!
