Geraldine Heng
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1023964 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Geraldine Heng |
| PRENOMES | Geraldine |
| SOBRENOME | Heng |
| ASSINATURA | HENG G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4411-1189 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 230 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
Scripts of Blackness
Before Race , and After Race
The aim of this book is to sketch paradigms and models for thinking critically about medieval race that call attention to tendencies and patterns, inventions, and strategies in race-making and identify crucibles and dynamics that conduce to the production of racial form and raced behavior. Dorothy Kim's response to my 2018 book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, opens with the quotation above, taken from the book itself. In requo…
An Ordinary Ship and Its Stories of Early Globalism
An ordinary ship and its cargo can tell the story of far-flung global markets, human voyaging, and early industrialization in China that supplied exports to the world. Sometime after 825 CE an Arab dhow set sail from the port of Guangzhou in coastal south China, having unloaded its goods from the Near East, and reloaded with some estimated 70,000 ceramics and other items, on its return voyage to the Abbasid empire. Taking the route that has been …
England and the Jews
For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of po…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizab…
Early Globalities, Global Literatures
“Early Globalities, Global Literatures” introduces a selection of global literatures from premodernity and critically discusses why the study of The Global Middle Ages serves contemporary culture and society
Early Globalities, and Its Questions, Objectives, and Methods
The study of the global past in deep time sets in the foreground many questions that also bedevil literary theory today. That convergence — between how to study the global past and how to read literary texts — drives this essay’s critical examination of salient methods, concepts, and objectives, and of the politics of endeavor. As examples, the essay analyzes historiographies of the global current today, asking what is at stake in reading global …
England’s Dead Boys
England's Dead Boys: Telling Tales of Christian-Jewish Relations Before and After the First European Expulsion of the Jews Geraldine Heng (bio) On July 31, 1255, an eight-year-old boy named Hugh, the son of a widow, Beatrice, in the city of Lincoln, fell into a cesspool attached to the house of a member of the Jewish community. There, the body putrefied for some twenty-six days and rose to the surface to dismay Jews who had assembled from all ove…
Sex, Lies, and Paradise
The Assassins of Alamut are presented in popular media and academic studies as the eleventh-century forerunners of today's "suicide terrorists," thus producing a genealogy of spectacular Middle Eastern suicide-homicides that stretches back some nine hundred years. "Sex, Lies, and Paradise" analyzes accretions of stories about the Assassins to see how the Assassins got their name, were believed to anticipate an Islamic paradise in the afterlife, a…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages II
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
The Global Middle Ages
Research Article| March 01 2009 The Global Middle Ages: An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities, or Imagining the World, 500–1500 C.E. Geraldine Heng Geraldine Heng The University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Geraldine Heng is the author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (Columbia 2003, 2004), and publishes on medieval literature and culture, postcolonial and race studies, and feminist theory. …
Jews, Saracens, ‘Black Men’, Tartars
Empire of magic
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned." "Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to…
Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance
Research Article| April 01 1998 Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance Geraldine Heng Geraldine Heng geraldine heng is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches Medieval and Women's Studies. She was Arthur and Martha Joukowski Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, in 1997–98, and is currently completing a book, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and th…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizab…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
Early Globalities, and Its Questions, Objectives, and Methods
The study of the global past in deep time sets in the foreground many questions that also bedevil literary theory today. That convergence — between how to study the global past and how to read literary texts — drives this essay’s critical examination of salient methods, concepts, and objectives, and of the politics of endeavor. As examples, the essay analyzes historiographies of the global current today, asking what is at stake in reading global …
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages II
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
An Ordinary Ship and Its Stories of Early Globalism
An ordinary ship and its cargo can tell the story of far-flung global markets, human voyaging, and early industrialization in China that supplied exports to the world. Sometime after 825 CE an Arab dhow set sail from the port of Guangzhou in coastal south China, having unloaded its goods from the Near East, and reloaded with some estimated 70,000 ceramics and other items, on its return voyage to the Abbasid empire. Taking the route that has been …
Early Globalities, Global Literatures
“Early Globalities, Global Literatures” introduces a selection of global literatures from premodernity and critically discusses why the study of The Global Middle Ages serves contemporary culture and society
Before Race , and After Race
The aim of this book is to sketch paradigms and models for thinking critically about medieval race that call attention to tendencies and patterns, inventions, and strategies in race-making and identify crucibles and dynamics that conduce to the production of racial form and raced behavior. Dorothy Kim's response to my 2018 book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, opens with the quotation above, taken from the book itself. In requo…
England’s Dead Boys
England's Dead Boys: Telling Tales of Christian-Jewish Relations Before and After the First European Expulsion of the Jews Geraldine Heng (bio) On July 31, 1255, an eight-year-old boy named Hugh, the son of a widow, Beatrice, in the city of Lincoln, fell into a cesspool attached to the house of a member of the Jewish community. There, the body putrefied for some twenty-six days and rose to the surface to dismay Jews who had assembled from all ove…
Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance
Research Article| April 01 1998 Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance Geraldine Heng Geraldine Heng geraldine heng is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches Medieval and Women's Studies. She was Arthur and Martha Joukowski Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, in 1997–98, and is currently completing a book, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and th…
Empire of magic
Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race and religion have recently returned." "Empire of Magic is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to…
Jews, Saracens, ‘Black Men’, Tartars
The Global Middle Ages
Research Article| March 01 2009 The Global Middle Ages: An Experiment in Collaborative Humanities, or Imagining the World, 500–1500 C.E. Geraldine Heng Geraldine Heng The University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Geraldine Heng is the author of Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (Columbia 2003, 2004), and publishes on medieval literature and culture, postcolonial and race studies, and feminist theory. …
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages I
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages II
‘The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages’– a two‐part article – questions the widely held belief in canonical race theory that ‘race’ is a category without purchase before the modern era. Surveying a variety of cultural documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries – chronicles, hagiography, literature, stories, sculpture, maps, canon law, statuary, illustrations, religious commentary, and architectural features – the study consider…
England’s Dead Boys
England's Dead Boys: Telling Tales of Christian-Jewish Relations Before and After the First European Expulsion of the Jews Geraldine Heng (bio) On July 31, 1255, an eight-year-old boy named Hugh, the son of a widow, Beatrice, in the city of Lincoln, fell into a cesspool attached to the house of a member of the Jewish community. There, the body putrefied for some twenty-six days and rose to the surface to dismay Jews who had assembled from all ove…
Sex, Lies, and Paradise
The Assassins of Alamut are presented in popular media and academic studies as the eleventh-century forerunners of today's "suicide terrorists," thus producing a genealogy of spectacular Middle Eastern suicide-homicides that stretches back some nine hundred years. "Sex, Lies, and Paradise" analyzes accretions of stories about the Assassins to see how the Assassins got their name, were believed to anticipate an Islamic paradise in the afterlife, a…
Early Globalities, Global Literatures
“Early Globalities, Global Literatures” introduces a selection of global literatures from premodernity and critically discusses why the study of The Global Middle Ages serves contemporary culture and society
Early Globalities, and Its Questions, Objectives, and Methods
The study of the global past in deep time sets in the foreground many questions that also bedevil literary theory today. That convergence — between how to study the global past and how to read literary texts — drives this essay’s critical examination of salient methods, concepts, and objectives, and of the politics of endeavor. As examples, the essay analyzes historiographies of the global current today, asking what is at stake in reading global …
England and the Jews
For three centuries, a mixture of religion, violence, and economic conditions created a fertile matrix in Western Europe that racialized an entire diasporic population who lived in the urban centers of the Latin West: Jews. This Element explores how religion and violence, visited on Jewish bodies and Jewish lives, coalesced to create the first racial state in the history of the West. It is an example of how the methods and conceptual frames of po…
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizab…
An Ordinary Ship and Its Stories of Early Globalism
An ordinary ship and its cargo can tell the story of far-flung global markets, human voyaging, and early industrialization in China that supplied exports to the world. Sometime after 825 CE an Arab dhow set sail from the port of Guangzhou in coastal south China, having unloaded its goods from the Near East, and reloaded with some estimated 70,000 ceramics and other items, on its return voyage to the Abbasid empire. Taking the route that has been …
Scripts of Blackness
Before Race , and After Race
The aim of this book is to sketch paradigms and models for thinking critically about medieval race that call attention to tendencies and patterns, inventions, and strategies in race-making and identify crucibles and dynamics that conduce to the production of racial form and raced behavior. Dorothy Kim's response to my 2018 book, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, opens with the quotation above, taken from the book itself. In requo…
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum is a major collection that aims to address th…
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