Revising the histories of medievalism—the processes by which the Middle Ages are reimagined in later moments to varied political, social, and cultural ends—is critical to the field’s turn away from its oppressive roots and towards a richer conception of the past. Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women’s Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures. These medievalisms create temporal dialogue between the past and the present to restore the voices of women who have been overlooked in medieval studies and medievalism studies. The book’s contemporary focus will appeal both to students and medieval studies scholars who seek to understand the field’s present value amid the backlash of patriarchal, white supremacist power.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Body
- Introduction. Restoring Forgotten Pasts for Unimagined Futures
- Shifting Dimensions: Defining Women’s Medievalisms
- Restoring Archival Absences
- Women and Medievalism Studies
- Essays in this Volume
- Works Cited
- Part 1. Founding Counterstories
- Chapter 1. Plantation Labour and Counter-Memory in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
- Disorienting Myths: Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men (1980)
- Resistant Voices: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (1982)
- Comparative Methods, Global Counterstories
- Works Cited
- Chapter 2. Tradition and the Individual (Black) Talent: Eliot, Malory, Marshall
- The Red Rock of White Tradition
- Tradition and the Individual Black Talent: Sonny-Rett
- Gender and Marshall’s “Joust” with Medieval Tradition
- Works Cited
- Chapter 3. Dilapidated Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad”
- “The Anniad” and its Euro-American Inheritance
- Bronzeville: The “Cracks and Crumbles” of Medievalism
- Medievalism and Form in “The Anniad”
- Rewriting Literary History via Dilapidated Medievalism
- Works Cited
- Part 2. New Topographies and Temporalities
- Chapter 4. Periodization and Restoring Women’s Stories in The Forest of Enchantments
and Juliet’s Nurse
- Chapter 5. N’ya-hap me-ye-moom: Chaucer, California, and the Literary Landscapes of Bailey’s Cafe
- “Outcasts in Their Own Nation”: Black Land
Dispossession in Bailey’s Cafe
- N’ya-hap me-ye-moom: Miss Maple’s California
- From California to Southwark
- Works Cited
- Part 3. Telling Silences
- Chapter 6. Antisemitism as Entertainment in the Medieval Mystery Novel
- Revisioning Jews in the Medieval Mystery Novel
- People Love Dead Jews: Temporal Asynchrony in
Mistress of the Art of Death
- The Many Excuses of the Blood Libel Plot
- Historical Restoration and Its Imagined Alternatives
- Works Cited
- Chapter 7. 1492 in Historical Fiction: Manuscripts, Memory, and Loss
- People of the Book
- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and Granada
- Works Cited
- Chapter 8. The Transgender Paladin of Charlemagne
- Mind: Dysphoric Lunacy in Orlando Furioso
- Body: Euphoric Trans-Humanity in Fate/Apocrypha
- Spirit: T for T Eroticism in Medievalism
- Works Cited
- Part 4. Critical Creativity
- Chapter 9. Feminist Poetic Encounter in Pattie McCarthy’s margerykempething
- Encounter and Recure: Feminist Poetic Medievalism
- Conclusion: Black Feminist Restorative Medievalisms
- Works Cited
- Chapter 10. Not-Knowing in Fiction and Scholarship
- Staging History that Bleeds
- There-and-Back-Again Writerly Journeys
- The Mystery of Incarnation
- When Essays Decide Not to Decide
- Works Cited
- Back matter
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