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Record Nr.

UNISA996517762103316

Autore

Hsy Jonathan Horng

Titolo

Antiracist medievalisms : from "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter / / by Jonathan Hsy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-64189-961-1

1-64189-315-X

Descrizione fisica

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

Collana

Arc medievalist

Disciplina

809/.933582

Soggetti

Anti-racism - History

Medievalism

Medievalism in art

Medievalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.