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.

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Wan-Chuan Kao, Wan-Chuan (Assistant Professor of English) Kao
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781526145802
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4580-2
• Pages: 456
• Thème: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; 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