The Black Middle Ages

Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages

von Matthew X. Vernon

266 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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. 

• Reihe: The New Middle Ages
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9783319910888
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2018
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing