American/Medieval Goes North: Earth and Water in Transit : Volume II of American/Medieval: Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer

The North signifies, as do all four cardinal directions, emotional, environmental, and cultural bodies of knowledge. These include political structures ("the wealthy North"), artistic productions ("Scandinavian" design), nomadic Hunter "Indigeneity" and Colonizer "Whiteness" as Northern signifiers - and, of course, the domain of many species of spirit masters, demons, and missionaries. Archaeologists agree that long before Columbus, it was Vikings and their slaves - northern seafarers from Scandinavia and enslaved men and women from Ireland - who made first contact with "America" in its northernmost regions. Twelve previously unpublished essays represent the disciplines of literature, history, art history, film studies, rhetoric, religious studies, cultural and queer studies. "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.. ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Wiethaus: Ulrike Wiethaus (PhD) holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions and the American Ethnic Studies Program at Wake Forest University A study of the hemispheric North as the epicenter of climate change, the medieval beginning of the transatlantic exchange, and the earliest European contact with Indigenous peoples in the “Americas” ***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Overing: Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University Eco-humanities in Northern hemispheric, circumpolar, and arctic contexts