The Black Middle Ages Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vernon, Matthew X. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:The New Middle Ages
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction- Reading Out of Time: Genealogy, African-American Literature, and the Middle Ages
  • 2. Medieval Self-Fashioning: The Middle Ages in Early African-American Scholarship and Curricula
  • 3. Failed Knights and Broken Narratives: Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt's Black Romance
  • 4. History, Genealogy, and Gerald of Wales: Medieval Theories of Ethnicity and their Afterlives
  • 5. Other Families: Dryden's Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor
  • 6. Coda- True and Imaginary History in Django Unchained.