The Black Middle Ages - Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction- Reading Out of Time: Genealogy, African-American Literature, and the Middle Ages.- 2. Medieval Self-Fashioning: The Middle Ages in Early African-American Scholarship and Curricula.- 3. Failed Knights and Broken Narratives: Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt's Black Romance.- 4. History, Genealogy, and Gerald of Wales: Medieval Theories of Ethnicity and their Afterlives.- 5. Other Families: Dryden's Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.- 6. Coda- True and Imaginary History in Django Unchained.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Matthew X. Vernon is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Zusammenfassung

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations. 

Zusatztext

“A volume consisting of four chapters that all stand alone and conclude with their own bibliography. … While each chapter stands all on its own, the volume concludes with an index for the entire book.” (Albrecht Classen, Mediaevistik, Vol. 32 (1), 2019)

Bericht

"A volume consisting of four chapters that all stand alone and conclude with their own bibliography. ... While each chapter stands all on its own, the volume concludes with an index for the entire book." (Albrecht Classen, Mediaevistik, Vol. 32 (1), 2019)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Matthew X Vernon, Matthew X. Vernon
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319910888
• ISBN: 978-3-31-991088-8
• Seiten: 266
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 213 mm x 22 mm
• Gewicht: 496 g
• Illustration: XIII, 266 p.
• Serien: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Comparative Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval