What Is “Postmedieval”? Embedded Reflections

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Boundary 2-An International Journal of Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI:10.1215/01903659-10472345

Julie Orlemanski

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Abstract

This essay explores the issue's topic, “The ‘Medieval’ Undone: Imagining a New Global Past,” by asking what it has meant, and what it could yet mean, to be postmedieval. It does so by telling a specific institutional history, that of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, which launched in 2010 and continues to the present. The article adopts a decidedly embedded perspective, from the point of view of a current coeditor of postmedieval, previously an author and book reviews editor. Ultimately, the article argues that postmedieval's attachment to the “medieval” works to keep its readers in conflicted contact with the Eurocentrism, global flows of capital, dominance of English, and politics of time that cannot be escaped merely through critique or shifts in representation.

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什么是“后中世纪”？嵌入式反射

这篇文章探讨了这个问题的主题，“‘中世纪’的终结:想象一个新的全球过去”，通过询问它意味着什么，以及它可能意味着什么，成为后中世纪。它通过讲述一个特定的机构历史来实现这一点，即后中世纪的历史:一个中世纪文化研究杂志，于2010年推出，一直持续到现在。这篇文章采用了一个明显嵌入的视角，从一个现任后中世纪的共同编辑的角度来看，以前是一个作家和书评编辑。最后，文章认为，后中世纪对“中世纪”作品的依恋使读者与欧洲中心主义、全球资本流动、英语的主导地位和时间政治保持冲突的联系，这些都不能仅仅通过批评或表现形式的转变来逃避。

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期刊介绍： Extending beyond the postmodern, boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, approaches problems in these areas from a number of politically, historically, and theoretically informed perspectives. boundary 2 remains committed to understanding the present and approaching the study of national and international culture and politics through literature and the human sciences.