Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index.
Contents:
Index. Preface. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian poets of color in motion -- Introduction. Performing medievalism, crafting identities -- 1. Progress: racial belonging, medieval masculinities, and the ethnic minority Bildungsroman -- 2. Plague: toxic chivalry, Chinatown crusades, and Chinese/Jewish solidarities -- 3. Place: indefinite detention and forms of resistance in Angel Island poetry -- 4. Passing: crossing color lines in the short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far -- 5. Play: racial recognition, unsettling poetics, and the reinvention of Old English and Middle English forms -- 6. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian poets of color in motion -- Further readings and resources -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
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.
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