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Bezig met laden... The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)door Matthew X. Vernon
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An interesting exploration of the links between medieval studies and African-American thought and literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I found the first two chapters—looking at the works of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, and some lesser known African-American intellectuals and writers who were their rough contemporaries—to be the most engaging. The more that The Black Middle Ages progresses, however, the more it goes in that literary studies direction of "let me slap two dubiously related things side-by-side and analyze them together using fairly tortured prose that often takes two paragraphs to belabour what seems a fairly straightforward point." To be fair, those with more of a lit studies background than me or who are more familiar with the texts Vernon discusses may get more out of these latter chapters. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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. . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)809.02Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By Period 6th-15th centuries, 500-1499LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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