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Antiracist Medievalisms
From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter
by Jonathan Hsy
Series: Arc Medievalist
170 Pages, Trim size: 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9781802700671
- Published: April 2022
- eBook (PDF)
- 9781641893152
- Published: April 2021
- Hardcover
- 9781641893145
- Published: April 2021
Jonathan Hsy is associate professor of English at George Washington University and co-director of Global Chaucers.
Antiracist Medievalisms solidifies the gains of the initial wave of scholarship on race and the Middle Ages, while also expanding the theoretical terms upon which medievalists can draw to enrich the conversation about race.[…] Antiracist Medievalisms asks what it would mean to fundamentally rethink our approaches to the Middle Ages. As this book attests, such a reexamination can, in skilled hands, lead to dynamic and fresh criticism.’
~Matthew X. Vernon, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 409-12
In Antiracist Medievalisms Hsy puts into practice the very notions of celebration, solidarity, and critical analysis that he sets out to uncover. I could not put it down, and I recommended it without reservations. His critical apparatus is now a model for my own work.
~Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Journal of British Studies 62 no. 1 (2023): 284-85