Critical Confessions Now

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 2-3, August 2020.

Autorentext

Abdulhamit Arvas Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USAAfrodesia McCannon Liberal Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Kris Trujillo Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Klappentext

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but also various linguistic and cultural contexts. Contributors deploy a wide array of methods, critical approaches, and narrative voices, and contributors assumed the confessional voice with a whole host of affective responses from enthusiasm to cautious hesitation to outright discomfort. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 2-3, August 2020.

Inhalt
Critical confessions now, Abdulhamit Arvas, Afrodesia McCannon, Kris Trujillo.- I can't love this the way you want me to: Archival blackness, Kim F. Hall.- Walking the line: Unfaith in the Middle Ages, Amy Hollywood.- Chronic denial: When making change means saying the whole truth, Margaret E. Boyle.- The sign you must not touch: Lyric obscurity and trans confession, Colby Gordon.- Race, labour, and the future of the past: King Lear 's 'true blank' Urvashi Chakravarty.- Confessions of the half-caste, or wheeling strangers of here and everywhere, Amrita Dhar.- Queer and working class while reading The Second Shepherds' Play , Jeffery G. Stoyanoff.- The unbearable whiteness of being (in) Shakespeare, Ambereen Dadabhoy.- The Aleph and the space of Shakespeare, Carla Della Gatta.- Mourner-confessors: The masala intercommunity of women in Rudaali and Hamlet , Tripthi Pillai.- The embarrassments of confession: Reading Margery Kempe today, Yea Jung Park.- The voice inside the wall: A muyto devota oração da empardeada as a confession of enclosure, Noel Blanco Mourelle.- The speaking wound: Gower's Confessio Amantis and the ethics of listening in the #metoo era, Caitlin G. Watt.- Confessing in Old English: The Life of Saint Mary of Egypt and the problem with penance, Erica Weaver.- How to corner a poem (and watch it thrive): A timely confession, Ariel Zinder.- Finding Old Nubian, or, why we should divest from Western tongues, Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei.- Confession, counter-conduct, critique, Maureen Kelly.- The gift of shame, Suzanne Conklin Akbari.- A Game of Thrones: Power structures in medievalisms, manuscripts, and the museum, Larisa Grollemond & Bryan C. Keene.- Premodern race studies in academic country clubs, Ayanna Thompson & Jeffrey Cohen.- Confessions: The consolations of literature, Jyotsna G. Singh.