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Nov 8, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read
*Thrilled* that articles from 1st issue of /postmedieval/ under new editors are starting to appear! 1st up: Kathy Lavezzo's important WHITENESS, MEDIEVALISM, IMMIGRATION: RETHINKING TOLKIEN THROUGH STUART HALL (access: rdcu.be/cA0nT) Plz boost! #medievaltwitter Image 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" Image