Duperron, Brenna. "From Both Our Eyes: Red-Reading Medieval Texts." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/red-reading-medieval-texts. [Date accessed].

Red-reading medieval texts

Engaging Indigenous theories and frameworks to the reading of medieval texts.

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Brenna Duperron
Dalhousie University

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Presented by Brenna Duperron at Education: A RaceB4Race Symposium in 2021

Brenna Duperron invites scholars to engage with Indigenous theories and frameworks to help recognize and reduce the latent colonialist tendencies of medieval studies. She argues that applying theories like etuaptmumk, or seeing with both the European eye and the Indigenous eye, often goes against years of academic training and socialization but allows for more holistic approaches to texts. Duperron applies this methodology to her reading of The Book of Margery Kempe, a 15th-century autobiography by an English mystic.

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