Antiracist medievalisms : : from "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter / / by Jonathan Hsy.

• Superior document: Arc medievalist
• VerfasserIn: Hsy, Jonathan Horng,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Arc medievalist.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 163 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

How do marginalized communities across the globe use the medieval past to combat racism, educate the public, and create a just world? Jonathan Hsy advances urgent academic and public conversations about race and appropriations of the medieval past in popular culture and the arts. Examining poetry, fiction, journalism, and performances, Hsy shows how cultural icons such as Frederick Douglass, Wong Chin Foo, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Sui Sin Far reinvented medieval traditions to promote social change. Contemporary Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and multiracial artists embrace diverse pasts to build better futures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface. Coalitions, Solidarities, and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Performing Medievalism, Crafting Identities -- Chapter One. Progress: Racial Belonging, Medieval Masculinities, and the Ethnic Minority Bildungsroman -- Chapter Two. Plague: Toxic Chivalry, Chinatown Crusades, and Chinese/ Jewish Solidarities -- Chapter Three. Place: Indefinite Detention and Forms of Resistance in Angel Island Poetry -- Chapter Four. Passing: Crossing Color Lines in the Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far -- Chapter Five. Play: Racial Recognition, Unsettling Poetics, and the Reinvention of Old English and Middle English Forms -- Chapter Six. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian Poets of Color in Motion -- Further Readings and Resources -- Bibliography -- Index