IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1008: Women's Literary, Cinematic, Embodied, and Visual Medievalisms
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press |
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Organiser: | Usha Vishnuvajjala, Department of Literature, American University, Washington DC |
Moderator/Chair: | Usha Vishnuvajjala, Department of Literature, American University, Washington DC |
Paper 1008-a | Nicolette in the 19th Century: Medievalism, Orientalism, and Gender Discourse (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1008-b | 'Oh I'm gonna have fun with you later': The Grotesque and the Romance of Being Marian (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1008-c | Gender and Conquest in Radwa Ashour's Granada (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This session explores understudied women's medievalisms, defined as medievalisms created or co-created by women and/or those with women's experiences at the center. Through studies of 19th-century literary and visual representations of the medieval Nicollete that resisted imperialist discourses, the effects of early Robin Hood games on the cinematic Marian, and the differing portrayals of women's experiences in the medievalist film and television of the 2010s, this session will demonstrate that women's experiences-even when they are effaced-are central to the politics of medievalist storytelling. |