Women's Restorative Medievalisms : Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures / Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Suzanne M., 1975- author.

Vernon, Matthew X., author.

Series:

Arc medievalist.

Arc Medievalist Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Medievalism.

Medievalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Arc Humanities Press, [2024]

Summary:

Revising the histories of medievalism--the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural ends--is critical to the field's turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women's Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures. These medievalisms create temporal dialogue between the past and the present to restore the voices of women who have been overlooked in medieval studies and medievalism studies. The book's contemporary focus will appeal both to students and medieval studies scholars who seek to understand the field's present value amid the backlash of patriarchal, white supremacist power.

Contents:

Front Cover

Front matter

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Body

Introduction. Restoring Forgotten Pasts for Unimagined Futures

Shifting Dimensions: Defining Women's Medievalisms

Restoring Archival Absences

Women and Medievalism Studies

Essays in this Volume

Works Cited

Part 1. Founding Counterstories

Chapter 1. Plantation Labour and Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée

Disorienting Myths: Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men (1980)

Resistant Voices: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982)

Comparative Methods, Global Counterstories

Chapter 2. Tradition and the Individual (Black) Talent: Eliot, Malory, Marshall

The Red Rock of White Tradition

Tradition and the Individual Black Talent: Sonny-Rett

Gender and Marshall's "Joust" with Medieval Tradition

Chapter 3. Dilapidated Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Anniad"

"The Anniad" and its Euro-American Inheritance

Bronzeville: The "Cracks and Crumbles" of Medievalism

Medievalism and Form in "The Anniad"

Rewriting Literary History via Dilapidated Medievalism

Part 2. New Topographies and Temporalities

Chapter 4. Periodization and Restoring Women's Stories in The Forest of Enchantments and Juliet's Nurse

Chapter 5. N'ya-hap me-ye-moom: Chaucer, California, and the Literary Landscapes of Bailey's Cafe

"Outcasts in Their Own Nation": Black Land Dispossession in Bailey's Cafe

N'ya-hap me-ye-moom: Miss Maple's California

From California to Southwark

Part 3. Telling Silences

Chapter 6. Antisemitism as Entertainment in the Medieval Mystery Novel

Revisioning Jews in the Medieval Mystery Novel.

People Love Dead Jews: Temporal Asynchrony in Mistress of the Art of Death

The Many Excuses of the Blood Libel Plot

Historical Restoration and Its Imagined Alternatives

Chapter 7. 1492 in Historical Fiction: Manuscripts, Memory, and Loss

People of the Book

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and Granada

Chapter 8. The Transgender Paladin of Charlemagne

Mind: Dysphoric Lunacy in Orlando Furioso

Body: Euphoric Trans-Humanity in Fate/Apocrypha

Spirit: T for T Eroticism in Medievalism

Part 4. Critical Creativity

Chapter 9. Feminist Poetic Encounter in Pattie McCarthy's margerykempething

Encounter and Recure: Feminist Poetic Medievalism

Conclusion: Black Feminist Restorative Medievalisms

Chapter 10. Not-Knowing in Fiction and Scholarship

Staging History that Bleeds

There-and-Back-Again Writerly Journeys

The Mystery of Incarnation

When Essays Decide Not to Decide

Back matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781802702804

1802702806

OCLC:

1468039615