Anglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures

dc.contributor.authorEllard, Donna-Beth
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T15:47:05Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T15:47:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-30
dc.date.updated2024-05-28T15:47:04Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractAnglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures traces the integral role that colonialism and racism play in the field formerly known as Anglo-Saxon studies by tracking the development of the “Anglo-Saxonist,” an overtly racialized term that describes a person whose affinities point towards white nationalism. That scholars continue to call themselves “Anglo-Saxonists,” despite urgent calls to combat racism within the field, suggests that this term is much more than just a professional appellative. It is, this book argues, a ghost in the machine of early medieval studies—a spectral figure created by a group of nineteenth-century historians, archaeologists, and philologists responsible for not only framing the interdisciplinary field of "Anglo-Saxon" studies but for also encoding ideologies of British colonialism and Anglo-American racism within the field’s methods and pedagogies.Anglo-Saxon(ist) pasts, postSaxon Futures is at once a historiography of Anglo-Saxon studies, a mourning of its Anglo-Saxonist “fathers,” and an exorcism of the colonial-racial ghosts that lurk within the field’s scholarly methods and pedagogies. Part intellectual history, part grief work, this book leverages the genres of literary criticism, auto-ethnography, and creative nonfiction in order to confront Anglo-Saxonist pasts in order to imagine speculative postSaxon futures inclusive of voices and bodies heretofore excluded from the field formerly known as Anglo-Saxon studies.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0262.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781950192397
dc.identifier.isbn9781950192403
dc.identifier.other27e17948-02c4-4ba3-8244-5c229cc8e9b8
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/679
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subject2ABA
dc.subjectHBJD1
dc.subjectHIS015000
dc.subject2ACBA
dc.subject3KH-GB-B
dc.subjectNHDJ
dc.subjectAnglo-Saxon
dc.subjectautoethnography
dc.subjectCritical Race Studies
dc.subjectintellectual history
dc.subjectMedieval Studies
dc.subjectOld English
dc.subjectpsychoanalysis
dc.titleAnglo-Saxon(ist) Pasts, postSaxon Futures
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
dcterms.accessRightsEmbargo: none
organization.legalNameUniversity of Denver

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