Description
| Product ID: | 9783319910888 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages |
| Title: | The Black Middle Ages |
| Subtitle: | Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages |
| Authors: | Author: Matthew X. Vernon |
| Page Count: | 266 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, General and world history, History, Ethnic studies, General & world history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Black & Asian studies, USA, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives more broadly in the medieval period, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book engages disparate discourses to reassess African-American positionalities in time and space. Utilizing a transhistorical framework, Vernon reflects on medieval studies as a discipline built upon a contended set of ideologies and acts of imaginative appropriation visible within source texts and their later mobilizations. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-06-26 |
