Edwards / Vernon Women’s Restorative Medievalisms

Forgotten Pasts and Unimagined Futures
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-280-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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

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

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)

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.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.