Women’s Restorative Medievalisms
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Suzanne M. Edwards
About this book
Revising the histories of medievalism—the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural ends—is critical to the field’s turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women’s Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures. These medievalisms create temporal dialogue between the past and the present to restore the voices of women who have been overlooked in medieval studies and medievalism studies. The book’s contemporary focus will appeal both to students and medieval studies scholars who seek to understand the field’s present value amid the backlash of patriarchal, white supremacist power.
Author / Editor information
Suzanne M. Edwards is Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Lehigh University. She is the author of The Afterlives of Rape in Medieval English Literature (2016) and articles on Gloria Naylor’s medievalism.
--- Contributor: Matthew X. VernonMatthew X. Vernon is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Davis. His first book, The Black Middle Ages (2018), explores the understudied relationship between medievalism and Blackness in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Introduction RESTORING FORGOTTEN PASTS FOR UNIMAGINED FUTURES
1 - PART 1. FOUNDING COUNTERSTORIES
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Chapter 1 PLANTATION LABOUR AND COUNTER- MEMORY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S CHINA MEN AND THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA’S DICTÉE
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Chapter 2 TRADITION AND THE INDIVIDUAL (BLACK) TALENT: ELIOT, MALORY, MARSHALL
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Chapter 3 DILAPIDATED MEDIEVALISM AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS’S “THE ANNIAD”
55 - PART 2. NEW TOPOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIES
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Chapter 4 PERIODIZATION AND RESTORING WOMEN’S STORIES IN THE FOREST OF ENCHANTMENTS AND JULIET’S NURSE
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Chapter 5 N’YA- HAP ME- YE- MOOM: CHAUCER, CALIFORNIA, AND THE LITERARY LANDSCAPES OF BAILEY’S CAFE
89 - PART 3. TELLING SILENCES
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Chapter 6 ANTISEMITISM AS ENTERTAINMENT IN THE MEDIEVAL MYSTERY NOVEL
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Chapter 7 1492 IN HISTORICAL FICTION: MANUSCRIPTS, MEMORY, AND LOSS
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Chapter 8 THE TRANSGENDER PALADIN OF CHARLEMAGNE
145 - PART 4. CRITICAL CREATIVITY
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Chapter 9 FEMINIST POETIC ENCOUNTER IN PATTIE MCCARTHY’S MARGERYKEMPETHING
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Chapter 10 NOT- KNOWING IN FICTION AND SCHOLARSHIP
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INDEX
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