| Description |
286 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
New Middle Ages
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| Contents |
From due east to true north : orientalism and orientation / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Coming out of exile : Dante on the Orient Express / Kathleen Biddick -- Chaucer after Smithfield / John M. Bowers -- Cilician Armenian meĢtissage and Hetoum's La fleur des histoires de la terre d'Orient / Glenn Burger -- Hybrids, monsters, borderlands : the bodies of Gerald of Wales / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Time behind the veil : the media, the Middle Ages, and orientalism now / Kathleen Davis -- Native studies : orientalism and medievalism / John M. Ganim -- The romance of England : Richard Coeur de Lyon, Saracens, Jews & the politics of race and nation / Geraldine Heng -- Marking time : Branwen, daughter of Llyr and the colonial refrain / Patricia Ingham -- Fetishism, 1927, 1614, 1461 / Steven F. Kruger -- Common language and common profit / Kellie Robertson -- Alien nation : London's aliens and Lydgate's mummings for the mercers and goldsmiths / Claire Sponsler -- Postcolonial Chaucer and the virtual Jew / Sylvia Tomasch -- Imperial fetishism : Prester John among the natives / Michael Uebel |
| Summary |
"This collection of essays is the first to apply postcolonial theory to the Middle Ages, and to critique that theory through the excavation of a distant past. The essays examine the establishment of colony, empire, and nationalism in order to expose the mechanisms of oppression through which "aboriginal," "native," or simply pre-existent cultures are displaced, eradicated, or transformed."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Middle Ages
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Colonies
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| Author |
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
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| LC no. |
99044203 |
| ISBN |
0312219296 |
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9780312219291 |
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9780333915424 |
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0333915429 |
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0312239815 |
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9780312239817 |
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