Chaganti, Seeta. "Deplatforming Chaucer." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/deplatforming-chaucer. [Date accessed].
Deplatforming Chaucer
Using Chaucer's House of Fame to talk about the political memorialization of the past.
Given that The House of Fame is concerned with the broadcasting of speech, the meaning of what is broadcast, and the platforming of the histories that produce our political ideologies, it incorporates many of the central terms involved in any discussion of not only monuments, but also deplatforming and free expression. It is thus a useful—maybe especially useful in its unexpectedness—place for a discussion about the role of Confederate monuments and other forms of oppressive memorializations in our country.
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Spenser and his racializing influences
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Blackness and Shakespeare's sonnets
Shakespeare’s works at large, and early modern literature more broadly, all deal with constructions of race. Shakespeare’s sonnets are especially fruitful for considering how the languages of fairness and darkness are used in nuanced ways to develop particular understandings of race.
