Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking

by Cord J. Whitaker

EPUB, 2021

Publication

University of Pennsylvania Press (2021), 256 pages

ISBN

0812225066 / 9780812225068

Notes

CONTENTS
Introduction. Moving Backward: Blackness in Modernity, Early Modernity, and the Middle Ages
1 Black Metaphors in the King of Tars
2 Shimmering Contraries: Medieval Grammar and the Distortion of Difference
3 Chaucer's Miller's Tale and the Spiritual Side of Race
4 Black Metaphors Inside and Out in Their Narrative and Spiritual Contexts
5 Separate and Together: Strife, Contrariety, and the Lords and Bondsmen of Julian of Norwich G. W. F. Hegel W. E. B. Du Bois
6 Enthymematic Interpretation: Mandeville and Racial Rhetorical Mirage
Conclusion. Race, Rhetorical Closure, and the Misuses of the Middle Ages
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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