8 The Griot in Sunjata: A Paradigmatic Herald of an Afrofuturistic Messianic Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction. Medievalisms: Local Spaces and Global Geographies 1
6. I Local Spaces
7. 1 Metamorphosis Metamorphosed: Fox Daemon, (Anti-)Colonialism, and Global Medievalism in Ken Liu’s ‘Good Hunting 25
8. 2 The Medievalist Simulacra of Kafka’s The Castle in Graphic Adaptations 37
9. 3 Mangaesque Knights: Japan’s Path to Global Medievalism 52
10. 4 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Maurice Gee’s The O Trilogy 65
11. 5 Trading a Bow for a Machine Gun: Robin Hoods, Nationalism, and the Personas of Philippine Politics 76
12. 6 Tropical Templars? Medievalism and Pseudohistory in Brazil’s Largest City 86
13. 7 Plague Temporality and Chronicle in Camus’s La peste 99
14. 8 The Griot in Sunjata: A Paradigmatic Herald of an Afrofuturistic Messianic Age 113
15. 9 Toward a Place-Based, North Pacific Medieval Studies: Medievalism, Pedagogy, Indigeneity 127
16. II Global Geographies
17. 10 Revolt: “Peasants” and Protest in the Twenty-First Century 143
18. 11 “Taking a Step Back into the Thirteenth Century”: Reading the Globe through a Medieval Lens: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo 156
19. 12 A Pinch of Flour, a Cup of Tall Tales, and one Khaleesi: Getting Medieval Across Time and Space 168
20. 13 The Boys Are Back in Town: Capital One’s Propagandic Commercials for Alt-Right Nostalgic Imperialism 180
21. 14 Memes, Covid-19, and Global Medievalism 190
22. 15 Dichotomies of Arthurian Medievalism: Dismantling and Reinforcing the Status Quo 203
23. 16 Thor versus Juracán: Premodern Storm Gods and Goddesses in Popular Culture 213
24. 17 Geo-mapping the In-Betweens: Medieval Daoist Correlatives in Pokémon Go 225
25. 18 Worldbuilding Dungeons and Befriending Dragons: How the Global TTRPG Community Combats Western Hegemony 237
26. 19 Marrying Medievalism, Post-Apocalypse, and the Global in Digital Games 247
27. Contributors 257
28. Index 262