Antiracist Medievalisms

From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter

AvJonathan Hsy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval past to combat racism, educate the public, and create a just world? Jonathan Hsy advances urgent academic and public conversations about race and appropriations of the medieval past in popular culture and the arts. Examining poetry, fiction, journalism, and performances, Hsy shows how cultural icons such as Frederick Douglass, Wong Chin Foo, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Sui Sin Far reinvented medieval traditions to promote social change. Contemporary Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and multiracial artists embrace diverse pasts to build better futures. “Makes the crucial move of tying medievalism studies readings to social and racial justice work explicitly … innovative and greatly needed in the field.” Seeta Chaganti, author of Strange Footing“A major accomplishment that belongs on the shelves of every person who believes in antiracism.” Geraldine Heng, author of The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Arc Medievalist
Antal sidor:170
Förlag:Arc Humanities Press
ISBN:9781641893145

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Jonathan Hsy is associate professor of English at George Washington University and co-director of Global Chaucers.

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Antiracist Medievalisms solidifies the gains of the initial wave of scholarship on race and the Middle Ages, while also expanding the theoretical terms upon which medievalists can draw to enrich the conversation about race.[…] Antiracist Medievalisms asks what it would mean to fundamentally rethink our approaches to the Middle Ages. As this book attests, such a reexamination can, in skilled hands, lead to dynamic and fresh criticism.’

Innehållsförteckning

Preface: Coalitions, Solidarities, and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Performing Medievalism, Crafting Identities1. Progress: Racial Belonging, Medieval Masculinities, and the Ethnic Minority Bildungsroman2. Plague: Toxic Chivalry, Chinatown Crusades, and Chinese/Jewish Solidarities3. Place: Indefinite Detention and Forms of Resistance in Angel Island Poetry4. Passing: Crossing Color Lines in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far5. Play: Racial Recognition, Unsettling Poetics, and the Reinvention of Old English and Middle English Forms6. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian Poets of Color in MotionFurther Readings and ResourcesBibliographyIndex