| ISBN |
3319910884 (hardcover) |
| 9783319910888 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Vernon, Matthew X. |
| Title |
The Black Middle Ages : race and the construction of the Middle ages / Matthew X. Vernon |
| Publisher |
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 |
| Physical desc. |
xiii, 266 pages : 22 cm. |
| Series |
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Reading out of time: genealogy, African-American literature, and the Middle Ages -- Medieval self-fashioning: the Middle Ages in early African-American scholarship and curricula -- Failed knights and broken narratives: Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt's Black romance -- History, genealogy, and Gerald of Wales: medieval theories of ethnicity and their afterlives -- Other families: Dryden's theory of congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor -- Coda: true and imaginary history in Django unchained. |
| Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism |
| Literature, Medieval -- Themes, motives |
| Literature, Medieval -- Influence |
| Civilization, Medieval -- Study and teaching |
| African Americans -- Race identity |
| African Americans -- Study and teaching |
| English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Influence |
