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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vernon, Matthew X., author.

Series:

New Middle Ages

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Medieval--Influence.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

Ethnicity in literature.

Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching.

Civilization, Medieval.

African Americans--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 266 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Race and the construction of the middle ages

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

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.

Contents:

Introduction : reading out of time - genealogy, African-American literature, and the Middle Ages

Medieval self-fashioning : the Middle Ages in early African-American scholarship and curricula

Failed knights and broken narratives : Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt's Black romance

History, genealogy, and Gerald of Wales : medieval theories of ethnicity and their afterlives

Other families : Dryden's theory of congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor

Coda : true and imaginary history in Django Unchained.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vernon, Matthew X. Black Middle Ages.

ISBN:

9783319910888

3319910884

OCLC:

1047895504