American/Medieval Goes North
Earth and Water in Transit
Gillian R Overing/Ulrike Wiethaus
The North signifies, as do all four cardinal directions, emotional, environmental, and cultural bodies of knowledge. These include political structures (the wealthy North), artistic productions (Scandinavian design), nomadic Hunter Indigeneity and Colonizer Whiteness as Northern signifiers - and, of course, the domain of many species of spirit masters, demons, and missionaries. Twelve previously unpublished essays represent the disciplines of literature, history, art history, film studies, rhetoric, religious studies, cultural and queer studies.
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Zusatztext
One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the periods popular uptake - cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages - this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the American and the medieval. - Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
Autorenportrait
<p>Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University. </p>
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 07.10.2019
Umfang: 287 S.
Sprache: ENG
Einband: GEB
ISBN/EAN: 9783847109525
Umbreit-Nr.: 5735373
