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A groundbreaking, radical new study of the transformative cultural, aesthetic, & political shifts initiated by black contemporary artists inc. Arthur Jafa, Deanna Lawson, Dawoud Bey, etc. who are dismantling the white gaze and demanding that we see-and see blackness in particular-anew.

Aesthetics, Black --- Arts, Black --- Arts and society --- 7.039 --- Dawoud Bey --- Roy DeCarava --- Oklahoma Grayson --- Kahlil Joseph --- Deana Lawson --- Simone Leigh --- Jenn Nkira --- Donald Rodney --- Luke Willis Thompson --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Black arts --- Negro arts --- Black aesthetics --- History --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 2000 - 2050 --- Social aspects --- Aesthetics --- gender [sociological concept] --- #breakthecanon --- Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- photography [process] --- video art --- African diaspora --- Bey, Dawoud --- Leigh, Simone --- Thompson, Luke Willis --- Okpokwasili, Okwui --- Jafa, Arthur --- Joseph, Kahlil --- Nkiru, Jenn --- Artistes noirs --- Esthétique --- dekolonisatie --- Artists, Black --- Black people in art. --- Esthétique noire --- Arts noirs --- Arts et société --- Personnes noires dans l'art. --- Arts, Black. --- Arts and society. --- Aesthetics, Black. --- Artists, Black. --- Art and Design. --- Histoire --- 2000-2099. --- United States. --- Aesthetics. --- African American. --- African Americans. --- Art. --- Black or African American. --- Esthetics. --- Esthétique noire. --- Esthétique. --- Noirs américains.

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human “software” has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

Philosophy --- Jewish religion --- Old English literature --- Literature --- History --- History of Europe --- cultuur --- filosofie --- literatuur --- Jodendom --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Peste noire --- Épidémies --- Minorités --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Diseases and literature. --- Plague in literature. --- Epidemics in literature. --- Diseases in literature. --- Plague --- Epidemics --- Antisemitism. --- Violence. --- Aspect social --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire. --- Violence envers --- Crimes contre --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- 20th century. --- 476-1492.