Marlon James, "Our Myths, Our Selves," Tolkien Lecture 2019

The seventh annual J.R.R Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature. Pembroke College, Oxford, 26th February, 2019. https://tolkienlecture.org Marlon James is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Book of Night Women, and John Crow’s Devil. A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Book of Night Women won the Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the NAACP Image Award. Marlon James is a professor at Macalester College in St Paul. He divides his time between Minnesota and New York. ‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ The Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature was established in 2013 at Pembroke College, Oxford, where J.R.R. Tolkien worked for twenty years as professor of Anglo-Saxon. Speakers in the series are given freedom to discuss any aspect of fantasy literature, broadly defined. Our aim is to honour J.R.R. Tolkien’s legacy by promoting, and contributing to, the study of fantasy. ▶ WEBSITE: https://tolkienlecture.org/ ▶ TWITTER:   / tolkienlecture   ▶ FACEBOOK:   / tolkienlecture   ▶ INSTAGRAM:   / tolkienlecture   ▶ TIKTOK:   / tolkienfantasylecture   ▶ LINKEDIN:   / jrrtolkienlectureonfantasyliterature