Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. Introduction RESTORING FORGOTTEN PASTS FOR UNIMAGINED FUTURES 1
5. PART 1. FOUNDING COUNTERSTORIES
6. Chapter 1 PLANTATION LABOUR AND COUNTER- MEMORY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S CHINA MEN AND THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA’S DICTÉE 21
7. Chapter 2 TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL (BLACK) TALENT: ELIOT, MALORY, MARSHALL 35
8. Chapter 3 DILAPIDATED MEDIEVALISM AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS’S “THE ANNIAD” 55
9. PART 2. NEW TOPOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIES
10. Chapter 4 PERIODIZATION AND RESTORING WOMEN’S STORIES IN THE FOREST OF ENCHANTMENTS AND JULIET’S NURSE 75
11. Chapter 5 N’YA- HAP ME- YE- MOOM: CHAUCER, CALIFORNIA, AND THE LITERARY LANDSCAPES OF BAILEY’S CAFE 89
12. PART 3. TELLING SILENCES
13. Chapter 6 ANTISEMITISM AS ENTERTAINMENT IN THE MEDIEVAL MYSTERY NOVEL 109
14. Chapter 7 1492 IN HISTORICAL FICTION: MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORY, AND LOSS 127
15. Chapter 8 THE TRANSGENDER PALADIN OF CHARLEMAGNE 145
16. PART 4. CRITICAL CREATIVITY
17. Chapter 9 FEMINIST POETIC ENCOUNTER IN PATTIE MCCARTHY’S MARGERYKEMPETHING 165
18. Chapter 10 NOT- KNOWING IN FICTION AND SCHOLARSHIP 181
19. INDEX 197