In the Lap of Whiteness.
- Author / Editor
- Kao, Wan-Chuan.
In the Lap of Whiteness.
- Published
- New Literary History 52 (2021): 535-61.
- Description
- Examines the "workings of empathy" in SqT to situate it in "premodern critical race studies, reading the "falcon-Canacee-lap" formulation as "a homo-affective assemblage, an animal human thing that blurs the borders of body, object, and species," whereby, in a psychoanalytic fantasy, Canacee is "feeling like a bird feeling like a woman." Observes parallel formulations in "the greater cultural-historical racial imaginary," showing how SqT and its reception reflect and refract historical periodization, racialization, and their illusions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale