White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the 'before' of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes.

About the author

Wan-Chuan Kao is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University

Summary

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the ‘before’ of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Wan-Chuan Kao, Wan-Chuan (Assistant Professor of English) Kao
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781526145802
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4580-2
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary theory, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies