Game(s) of Thrones: Medieval Literature and Popular Culture

What did you think of our two readings for this week? Was there anything that stood out to you as interesting, strange, confusing?

Reading through Heng's articles, what seems to be her definition of race? What do you think of it? Is there anything you would add or edit? How does it differ from how we typically talk/think about race in contemporary America?

Heng would argue that the Muslim Ottomans in Richard Coer de Lyon (also referred to as Saracens). What sort of racializing moments or markers do we see in the poem (i.e., in what ways does the text mark the Ottomans as racially different to Europeans)?