
American/Medieval Goes North
Earth and Water in Transit
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Published on 7. October 2019
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978-3-8470-0952-8 (ISBN)
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'One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the period's popular uptake - cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists' brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages - this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the 'American' and the 'medieval'.' - Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University
Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University.
Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University.
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1. Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
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with 9 figures
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6,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8470-0952-8 (9783847009528)
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Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: American/Medieval Points North
- An Emergent Project
- Overview of Chapters and Sections
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part One: Earth and Water in Transit
- Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing: "Her, the Water, and Me": Three Women Go North
- I Roni Horn goes North
- II Three Icelandic Tales
- Seal Maiden
- More Women, More Water, and Some Treasure
- Lagarfljót, Home of the Worm
- III Anglo-Saxon Moorings
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- E. R. Truitt: "And of all these things the Polar Bear was the symbol": Charisma, Wilderness, and Whiteness
- Select Bibliography
- Mathias Nordvig: Katla the Volcanic Witch: A Medieval Icelandic Recipe for Survival
- Introduction
- The Metaphoric Mind: Native American Approaches to Oral History and Environment
- Volcanism in Medieval Icelandic literature
- Katla: The Spirit of Mýrdalsjökull
- Environment and the Human Mind
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part Two: First Peoples
- Pamela Berger and Wayne Newell, with an Accompanying Essay by Barbara Hartwell Poirier: Though the Eyes of an Irish Slave: An Unconventional Point of Entry into the Medieval World
- Preparations for Filmmaking
- The Scholarship behind the Script and the Production Design
- Bibliography
- Barbara Hartwell Poirier: Notes of a Mashantucket Pequot Elder
- Bibliography
- Ulrike Wiethaus: Ultima Thule Redux: Screening Spaces of Death, Regeneration, and the Sacred in the Arctic Circle
- Continuous Settler Presence and its Impact on Inuit Health and Wellbeing: The Example of Kalaallit Nunaat
- The Fast Runner Trilogy (FRT): Filming Against the Death of History
- The Long Medieval Moment: Adam of Bremen and Christian Missionary Conquest
- Beyond Settler Time: Resolving Cultural and Religious Violence in the FRT
- Bibliography
- Mary Kate Hurley: Choosing a Past: Fictions of Indigeneity in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Introduction
- The Elder Scrolls
- Temporality and Video Games
- Case Studies: The Nords and The Forsworn
- Conclusion
- Appendix One
- Citing Books in Skyrim
- Bibliography
- Part Three: Men of the North
- Joshua Davies: Hengist and Horsa at Monticello: Human and Nonhuman Migration, Parahistory and American Anglo-Saxonism
- From the North: Hengist and Horsa in Anglo-Saxon England
- To the West: Jefferson's Anglo-Saxons
- "Founders of freedom and folk-builders mightiest"
- Mixed Blood and Mixed Times
- Select bibliography
- Tina Boyer: Losing your Religion in American Gods
- Introduction
- Coming to America: Immigration and Identity-Crises
- Surviving in America: Issues of Race, Gender, and Assimilation
- Conclusion: Humans, Immigration, and the Land
- Bibliography
- Margaret Zulick: American Compass: Sacred Land and the Early Mormon Imaginary
- The Sacred Compass: Memory, Place, Journey
- The Path of Discovery: Natural Magic, Divination and Treasures in the Earth
- The Path of History: Apostates and Faithful Servants
- The Path of Prophecy: Anxiety, Authority, Legitimation and the Memories of Lucy Mack Smith
- Three Paths and the American/Medieval
- Bibliography
- Part Four: Northern Cræft
- Donna Beth Ellard with Bailey Pittenger: Writing with Birds: Enigma 59, Riddle 51, and Process-Based Poetics
- Scribal Tools, Riddling Assemblages, and Writing with Birds
- Writing With Birds: a Process-based Poetics
- Writing with Birds and Duologic Form
- Bibliography
- Gale Sigal: "Like a Breath of Northwest Wind": William Morris's Medievalism beyond England's Shores
- Medievalism, the American/Medieval, and William Morris
- Morris Goes North
- The Norse Transit to North America
- Kelmscott Press and the Book Arts in America
- The Afterlife
- William Morris and the Rewards and Limitations of the American/Medieval
- Bibliography
- Author Biographies
- Index
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