Title The black middle ages : race and the construction of the Middle Ages / Matthew X. Vernon

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) Series The new Middle Ages New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 03, 2018) Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Ethnicity in literature. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Comparative literature. Literature. Literature, Medieval. Literature Literature, Medieval LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- African American authors Comparative literature Ethnicity in literature Literature Literature, Medieval Literature, Modern Literature: history & criticism. Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. United States of America, USA. c 500 CE to c 1000 CE. 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899. General & world history. History. Ethnic studies. Comparative Literature. Literature. SUBJECT America -- Literatures America -- Literatures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004276 Subject America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literatures Form Electronic book ISBN 9783319910895 3319910892 3319910884 9783319910888 9783319910901 3319910906 9783030081744 3030081745

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