Matthew X. Vernon

The Black Middle Ages (eBook, PDF)

Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Contributes timely research to join the fields of medieval studies and African American studies

Assembles an archive of texts to expand understandings of black studies

Promotes a transhistorical and comparative theoretical framework

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319910895
• Artikelnr.: 53017257

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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)