Antiracist medievalisms from "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter

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, f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hsy, Jonathan Horng, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press 2021.
Colección:Arc medievalist.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009720315706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface. Coalitions, Solidarities, and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Performing Medievalism, Crafting Identities
  • Chapter One. Progress: Racial Belonging, Medieval Masculinities, and the Ethnic Minority Bildungsroman
  • Chapter Two. Plague: Toxic Chivalry, Chinatown Crusades, and Chinese/ Jewish Solidarities
  • Chapter Three. Place: Indefinite Detention and Forms of Resistance in Angel Island Poetry
  • Chapter Four. Passing: Crossing Color Lines in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far
  • Chapter Five. Play: Racial Recognition, Unsettling Poetics, and the Reinvention of Old English and Middle English Forms
  • Chapter Six. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian Poets of Color in Motion
  • Further Readings and Resources
  • Bibliography
  • Index