{"product_id":"9781526145802","title":"White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages","description":"Author: Wan-Chuan Kao\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526145802\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Apr 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates in the history of racialisation in the late medieval West, it does not denote skin tone alone. The 'before' of whiteness, presupposing essence and teleology, is less a retro-futuristic temporisation  one that simultaneously looks backward and faces forward  than a discursive figuration of how white becomes whiteness. Fragility delineates the limits of ruling ideologies in performances of mourning as self-defence against perceived threats to subjectivity and desire; precarity registers the ruptures within normative values by foregrounding the unmarked vulnerability of the body politic and the violence of cultural aestheticisation; and racialicity attends to the politics of recognition and the technologies of enfleshment at the systemic edge of life and nonlife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920501620894,"sku":"ING-9781526145802","price":125.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526145802.jpg?v=1782822268","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526145802","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}