White before whiteness in the late middle ages:

This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the 'before' of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produ...

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1. Verfasser: Kao, Wan-Chuan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Manchester Medieval literature and culture series
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Online-Zugang:http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780228020073
Zusammenfassung:This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the 'before' of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes.
Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Operational whiteness -- Part I Fragility -- Memorialisation in white -- Desiring white object -- Part II Precarity -- Stretched white leather -- Flat white -- Part III Racialicity -- White dorsality -- In the lap of whiteness -- Conclusion: White environmentality -- Bibliography -- Index.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (457 Seiten)
ISBN:9781526145819
9781526145802

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