01 Voices 1-44 44 7/8/03 2:11 PM Page 30 30 VOLKSLIEDER Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature The idea that a literary tradition somehow memorializes and monumentalizes national culture is not new to English curricula, nor conï¬ned to the academy.criptural models of race, articulated by literate Anglo-Saxons, obtained well into the twentieth century, and continue in modiï¬ed form to shape the way some contemporary critics hear the voice of race in literature. Coextensive, then, with any study of the limits of English literature is a study of an English race.
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