American/Medieval Goes North

Earth and Water in Transit

Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9783847009528
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Science General
• Index: Biological Sciences

"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

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: American/Medieval Points North
• Part One: Earth and Water in Transit
• Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing: “Her, the Water, and Me”: Three Women Go North
• E. R. Truitt: “And of all these things the Polar Bear was the symbol”: Charisma, Wilderness, and Whiteness
• Mathias Nordvig: Katla the Volcanic Witch: A Medieval Icelandic Recipe for Survival
• 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
• Barbara Hartwell Poirier: Notes of a Mashantucket Pequot Elder
• Ulrike Wiethaus: Ultima Thule Redux: Screening Spaces of Death, Regeneration, and the Sacred in the Arctic Circle
• Bibliography
• Mary Kate Hurley: Choosing a Past: Fictions of Indigeneity in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Part Three: Men of the North
• Joshua Davies: Hengist and Horsa at Monticello: Human and Nonhuman Migration, Parahistory and American Anglo-Saxonism
• Tina Boyer: Losing your Religion in American Gods
• Margaret Zulick: American Compass: Sacred Land and the Early Mormon Imaginary
• Part Four: Northern Cræft
• Donna Beth Ellard with Bailey Pittenger: Writing with Birds: Enigma 59, Riddle 51, and Process-Based Poetics
• Gale Sigal: “Like a Breath of Northwest Wind”: William Morris's Medievalism beyond England's Shores
• Author Biographies
• Index