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Britton, Dennis Austin. “From The Knight’s Tale to The Two Noble Kinsmen: Rethinking Race, Class and Whiteness in Romance.” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 6, no. 1 (2015): 64–78.
Argues that Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale participates in conventions of the crusade romance by attempting to link lineage and class affiliation with somatic features of race. The text illustrates how The Two Noble Kinsmen draws on The Knight’s Tale, where Chaucer uses “images of Africanness,” instead of white skin, to establish categories of race and class. This article engages in discussions of whiteness, African identity, and conventions of romance.
