Women’s Restorative Medievalisms

Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80270-162-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Arc Medievalist

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Suzanne M.

Vernon, Matthew X.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Restoring Forgotten Pasts for Unimagined Futures, by Suzanne M. Edwards and Matthew X. Vernon

Part 1. Founding Counterstories

Chapter 1. Plantation Labour and Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, by Jonathan Hsy

Chapter 2. Tradition and the Individual (Black) Talent: Eliot, Malory, Marshall, by Kathy Lavezzo

Chapter 3. Dilapidated Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad”, by Seamus Dwyer and Candace Barrington

Part 2. New Topographies and Temporalities

Chapter 4. Periodization and Restoring Women’s Stories in Forest of Enchantments and Juliet’s Nurse, by Usha Vishnuvajjala

Chapter 5. N’ya-hap me-ye-moom: Chaucer, California, and the Literary Landscapes of Bailey’s Café, by Jenny Adams

Part 3. Telling Silences

Chapter 6. Antisemitism as Entertainment in the Medieval Mystery Novel, by Samantha Katz Seal

Chapter 7. 1492 in Historical Fiction: Manuscripts, Memory, and Loss, by Sara V. Torres

Chapter 8. The Transgender Paladin of Charlemagne, by M. W. Bychowski

Part 4. Critical Creativity

Chapter 9. Feminist Poetic Encounter in Pattie McCarthy’s margerykempething, by Carissa M. Harris

Chapter 10. Not-Knowing in Fiction and Scholarship, by Kim Zarins

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Vernon, Matthew X.
Matthew 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.

Edwards, Suzanne M.
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.