Antiracist Medievalisms : From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter / by Jonathan Hsy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Arc medievalist | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2021]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©[2021]Description: 1 online resource (170 pages): illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781641893152
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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
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.0Examining 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.
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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

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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.0Examining 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.

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