Overview
- Contributes timely research to join the fields of medieval studies and African American studies
- Assembles an archive of texts to expand understandings of black studies
- Promotes a transhistorical and comparative theoretical framework
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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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.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“A volume consisting of four chapters that all stand alone and conclude with their own bibliography. … While each chapter stands all on its own, the volume concludes with an index for the entire book.” (Albrecht Classen, Mediaevistik, Vol. 32 (1), 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew X. Vernon is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Black Middle Ages
Book Subtitle: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages
Authors: Matthew X. Vernon
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91089-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91088-8Published: 26 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08174-4Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91089-5Published: 13 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 266
Topics: Medieval Literature, North American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature