"My goal here is to talk a bit about why medieval romance, and especially medieval English romance, is such a useful archive for the critical study of race."
"When Werner Solers released his big edited collection on the history of interracial coupling in 2000, he makes the case for its tabooization, being particularly American."
"It might come then as some surprise that I posit that one of the best archives for understanding the dynamics of such prohibition and taboo is in fact medieval European, perhaps especially English, and also its close cousin French, medieval romance."
#medieval-romance #critical-race-studies #interracial-relationships #cultural-history #english-literature
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