Retelling the "Prioress’s Tale": Antisemitism, Racism, and Patience Agbabi’s "Telling Tales."

Author / Editor
Blurton, Heather.

Title
Retelling the "Prioress’s Tale": Antisemitism, Racism, and Patience Agbabi’s "Telling Tales."

Published
Chaucer Review 56.4 (2021): 397-412.

Description
Considers PrT and its depiction of premodern antisemitism and relation to premodern race. Ties PrT’s construction of Jews as a cursed monolith to the workings of structural racism. Discusses Agbabi's "Sharps an Flats," which demonstrates "how Chaucer's tale can usefully function as a parable for thinking about racism."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion