Antiracist medievalisms : from "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter / by Jonathan Hsy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonathan Hsy., author.

Series:

Arc medievalist.

Arc medievalist

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-racism--History.

Anti-racism.

Medievalism in art--Medievalism in literature.

Medievalism in art.

Medievalism in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022

Place of Publication:

Leeds: Arc Humanities Presss. 2021

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file HTML/PDF

Biography/History:

Hsy Jonathan : Jonathan Hsy is associate professor of English at George Washington University and co-director of Global Chaucers.

Summary:

How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval past to combat racism, educate the public, and create a just world? Jonathan Hsy advances urgent academic and public conversations about race and appropriations of the medieval past in popular culture and the arts. Examining poetry, fiction, journalism, and performances, Hsy shows how cultural icons such as Frederick Douglass, Wong Chin Foo, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Sui Sin Far reinvented medieval traditions to promote social change. Contemporary Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and multiracial artists embrace diverse pasts to build better futures.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface. Coalitions, Solidarities, and Acknowledgments

Introduction. Performing Medievalism, Crafting Identities

Chapter One. Progress: Racial Belonging, Medieval Masculinities, and the Ethnic Minority Bildungsroman

Chapter Two. Plague: Toxic Chivalry, Chinatown Crusades, and Chinese/ Jewish Solidarities

Chapter Three. Place: Indefinite Detention and Forms of Resistance in Angel Island Poetry

Chapter Four. Passing: Crossing Color Lines in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far

Chapter Five. Play: Racial Recognition, Unsettling Poetics, and the Reinvention of Old English and Middle English Forms

Chapter Six. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian Poets of Color in Motion

Further Readings and Resources

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed February 10 2026)

ISBN:

9781641899611

1641899611

9781641893152

164189315X

OCLC:

1255238942