IMHO, Grendel by John Gardner deserves a wider read. The creature feels besieged by rank men who object to Grendel eating a stray sheep or two. The shift in perspective is a revelation and Beowulf comes across as a major tool.
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I saw the cover and decided to read it in college and have read it twice since.
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Thanks for this! I'm a non-medievalist who just taught Beowulf for the first time amongst the current discussions of race and medieval studies. I've tried to highlight the white supremacy issues with my students, but not to this extent with Beowulf.
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What's most striking to my students is how human the monsters are (they have motives and thought and feelings . . . even the dragon who is totally in his feels!) I've focused on Grendel and his Mother as the other, but the Morrison work really makes that explicit.
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This makes me so sad about Hall. I guess no one is perfect, not even Tolkien.
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This is excellent. Thank you.
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Your analysis was breathtaking
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Thank you so much for this.
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