"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 &...

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1. Verfasser:	Kao, Wan-Chuan (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Manchester Manchester University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Manchester medieval literature and culture [52]
Schlagworte:	Sozialgeschichte 1300-1500 Weiße Ethnische Identität White people / Race identity / History / To 1500 Social history / Medieval, 500-1500 Europe / Social conditions / To 1492 Histoire sociale / 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) Europe / Conditions sociales / Jusqu'à 1492
Zusammenfassung:	"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."
Beschreibung:	xiii, 440 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9781526145802