Thinking About (and With) the Prioress’s Tale: From Medieval Alterity to Modern Hate Narrative

Through a retrospective on teaching an upper-level Chaucer course in 2018, the author identifies the Prioress’s Tale as what she terms "hate narrative," a literary genre with distinct conventions that persists to our own day and has been deployed against marginalized groups, including raci...

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Main Author: Winstead, Karen A. 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: The Chaucer review
Year: 2024, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 409-424
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400, The prioress's tale / Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400 / Hate speech
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Chaucer
B "Prioress’s Tale"
B Pedagogy
B "hate narrative"
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Summary:Through a retrospective on teaching an upper-level Chaucer course in 2018, the author identifies the Prioress’s Tale as what she terms "hate narrative," a literary genre with distinct conventions that persists to our own day and has been deployed against marginalized groups, including racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, refugees, and immigrants.
ISSN:1528-4204
Contains:Enthalten in: The Chaucer review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5325/chaucerrev.59.3.0409