• Bryant and Mittman, Travels of the Blemmye-Folke, LISTENING 52.3.pdf

    Author(s):
    Brantley Bryant, Asa Simon Mittman (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Monsters and Monstrosity
    Subject(s):
    Monsters, English literature--Middle English, English language--Old English, Mythology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    monster theory, Monstrosity, Middle English literature, Old English, Old Norse
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/52df-h806
    Abstract:
    In this article, we bring to light a text that foregrounds listening to the monster, in this case the Blemmyes, by making available to scholarly readers a previously unknown Middle English poem of great historical and literary significance. Our discovery was made possible through the generous funding of the NEPS (National Endowment for the Preternatural Studies), which allowed us to spend the summer of 2016 cataloging previously unstudied collections in the famously capacious library of Miskatonic University, in Arkham, MA. As is well known, several collections in the library were assembled and acquired in order to bolster the founders’ problematic stances on race, miscegenation, and eugenics, and since the radical restructuring of the administration, mission, and student body in the 1990s, are consequently now being mined by researchers in critical race theory and sociology as a trove of sources, some unique survivals, on individual and structural racism.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    Listening, Incorporated
    Pub. Date:
    2017
    Journal:
    LISTENING
    Volume:
    52
    Page Range:
    117 - 126
    ISSN:
    0024-4414
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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