This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations
of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and
nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates
in the history of racialisation in the late medieval West, it does
not denote skin tone alone. The ‘before’ of whiteness,
presupposing essence and teleology, is less a retro-futuristic
temporisation – one that simultaneously looks backward and faces
forward – than a discursive figuration of how white becomes
whiteness. Fragility delineates the limits of ruling ideologies in
performances of mourning as self-defence against perceived threats
to subjectivity and desire; precarity registers the ruptures within
normative values by foregrounding the unmarked vulnerability of the
body politic and the violence of cultural aestheticisation; and
racialicity attends to the politics of recognition and the
technologies of enfleshment at the systemic edge of life and
nonlife. -- .
General
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
| Release date: |
2024 |
| First published: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Wan-Chuan Kao
(Assistant Professor of English)
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
456 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5261-4580-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5261-4580-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781526145802 |
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