Nahir Otano Gracia Asst Prof Eng University of New Mexico Commons username: @nahir LinkedIn URL: nahir-ota%C3%B1o-gracia-7b785a63 Following 33 members View ProfileActivitySites 0Following 33Followers 5Groups 7ForumsDocs Academic Interests Commons GroupsMLA2022 MLA ConventionCLCS ArthurianCLCS MedievalLLC ChaucerLLC Old EnglishLLC Old NorseMLA Members for Justice in Palestine Recent Commons Activity changed their profile picture started the topic Palestine, Medieval Studies, … in the forum MLA Members for Justice in Pa… joined the group MLA Members for Justice in Pa… started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval… in the forum CLCS Arthurian Blog Posts CVView file PublicationsThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the global North Atlantic: Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia, and North Africa. Taking a comparative approach that draws on language traditions not commonly studied together and places lesser-known Arthurian texts in conversation with each other, the book explores the important role of translation in the dissemination and analysis of Arthuriana, showing how these texts functioned within the settings that produced them. Introducing the framework of the global North Atlantic within the field of global medieval studies, the book examines Arthurian texts written in Castilian, Catalan, Middle Welsh, and Old Norse, among other languages, in order to illustrate the various ways that the writers adapt the materials to serve their specific cultural and aesthetic purposes. Tracing how Arthuriana shifts and changes throughout the global North Atlantic, the book uncovers the hierarchies of power present in Arthurian texts and how they reflect, manipulate, and critique the power relations existing in the courts that circulated the texts. Arthuriana’s obsession with chivalry, the book demonstrates, is fundamentally about whiteness; these texts deploy chivalric whiteness to naturalize relations of domination and normalize violence against racialized subjects.The Other Faces of Arthur establishes Arthuriana as a pan-European project of racialization that ultimately serves to rationalize geocultural conquest and expansion.
