Contributes timely research to join the fields of medieval studies and African American studies

Assembles an archive of texts to expand understandings of black studies

Promotes a transhistorical and comparative theoretical framework

Autorentext

Matthew X. Vernon is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction- **** Reading Out of Time: Genealogy, African-American Literature, and the Middle Ages.- 2. Medieval Self-Fashioning: The Middle Ages in Early African-American Scholarship and Curricula.- 3. Failed Knights and Broken Narratives: Mark Twain and Charles Chesnutt's Black Romance.- 4. History, Genealogy, and Gerald of Wales: Medieval Theories of Ethnicity and their Afterlives.- 5. Other Families: Dryden's Theory of Congeniality in Dante, Chaucer, and Naylor.- 6. Coda- **** True and Imaginary History in Django Unchained.